| | 2001 Newsgroup postings (01/19 - 02/20) Lynn Wheeler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | A full command line environment is available too, as well as a library (on most platforms), plus a disk-functions menu. |
 | | They solved the cache coherency problem by having the cache in a separate cabinet, with interfaces for all the CPUs and arbitration, etc. Since there was only one copy of the data in cache, no coherency problems :-). |
 | | Some operating system activity in the 3081 time-frame was system enhancements to make sure nearly all kernel storage allocation was done on cache-line boundaries and in cache line increments (at least minimized independent processors operating on different data that happened to be co-located in the same cache line). |
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