> Interesting thread (ha) on Slashdot, didn't have the heart to chime in > and tell them that a whole class of people have been doing it for years, > quite successfully, and in assembler at that...
Um... well if you squint real hard, maybe. But z/OS multi-tasking and parallel processing are wildly different animals. When "those" guys talk about parallel programming and parallel algorithms, they are talking about applying the same set of instructions, in parallel, to a very (very) large data set. Think computational fluid dynamics or atomic bomb simulations. And yes, it's hard. Doing multi-tasking on z/OS is a doddle in comparison. You can of course implement parallel algorithms under z/OS subtasks, but the hard part is the parallel algorithms, not the task bit. CC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
