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Inventions inna-smartphone

Authored by: Wol on Wednesday, February 20 2013 @ 02:07 PM EST

Going back even further, I worked on a Pr1me 850 in the mid-eighties. This was
widely considered a bit of a botch job, but it was designed as two 750s bolted
together. Given that computers of that era were boards on a backplane, I think
it was just two 750 cpu boards plugged into one backplane, and a 750 could be
converted to an 850 just by plugging in the extra board. But whatever. The idea
was around even then.

In the same time-frame, a friend worked for Stratus, and their systems had
multiple cpus as a matter of course. Primarily for fault-tolerance, of course,
but I seem to recall him talking about machines with four or more cpus.

Cheers,
Wol

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Inventions inna-smartphone - Authored by: rcsteiner on Thursday, February 21 2013 @ 02:27 PM EST

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