Hi Haines.
The other points have all been dealt with by others in other emails,
so I'll just clear the one remaining item for you...
> There is a difference between UP and SMP. I understand what the
> latter means, and the former is a single processor, but what does
> "UP" mean literally?
Here's the literal translation of both, as well as the missing one...
UP UniProcessor
AMP Asynchronous MultiProcessor
SMP Synchronous MultiProcessor
The Transputer is based on AMP technology, but I don't know whether
anybody is still working on AMP as SMP appears to have taken over
from it.
Best wishes from Riley.
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