Re: 9600 that have dual processors

[Michael Shaw]

On Tuesday, June 24, 2003, at 08:02  PM, David Elmo wrote:

Thanks Michael, nice explanation. Getting the picture now. It would be 
nice
to have two processors even if there were no apps for them if one could
manually tell one to do one thing and the other to do another - so 
that one
doing one thing did not slow down the other doing another thing. I am
assuming that you could not do this, that the finder was not so 
provisioned
in any Mac OSs.



The Daystar Genesis computers came with a wonderful software bundle 
with a utility that could allow you to run with one, two, three or all 
four processors enabled. The "PowerFrax" program even gave the 
computation time for all processes in nanoseconds so you could compare 
and contrast performance of fractal generation with various 
configurations.

There was no way to allocate separate tasks to specific processors 
within any given application. You must remember that the fastest 
Daystar Genesis MP 932+ was only in production for FOURTEEN days when 
Apple pulled Daystar's license and put them out of the MP clone 
business, and after that further development of MP environment 
stagnated until Apple could come out with their own G3 and G4 MP CPUs.

M

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