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One of my courses at UIUC used a Sequent Balance 8000, which also ran on the NS32K (and was a direct competitor). Ours was a 6-CPU system, and it had no problem
by flyinghamster 3y ago
One of my courses at UIUC used a Sequent Balance 8000, which also ran on the NS32K (and was a direct competitor). Ours was a 6-CPU system, and it had no problems handling system loads that would have brought the neighboring Pyramid 90x to its knees. We were only using it for general programming coursework and not for anything specific to parallel programming, but it was head and shoulders above the usual systems.
- chasil 3y agoI thought Dynix was x86-only, but I guess not. The wiki for Dynix doesn't appear to know any of this. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYNIX https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYNIX The Sequent wiki does have a paragraph on the Balance. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequent_Computer_Systems#Balance https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequent_Computer_Systems#Bal...