Interrupting EDP...
Before this discussion is ruled out-of-order...
On Fri, 29 Jan 2016 11:53:16 +0100, Ulrich Kulisch wrote:
> On a modern processor that performs 10 to the power of 15 operations in
> a second these can be done in really a very tiny portion of a second.
I'd like one of those if it fits on my desk!
But seriously, the interrupt issue is real in any NON-DEDICATED machine,
because a general-purpose OS -- and even some special-purpose ones --
would not know that an EDP is in progress.
Besides -- interrupting *one* EDP wasn't even the issue. The issue was
computing a large number of independent EDPs, and THAT computation would
surely be interruptable unless the machine was indeed dedicated to this
calculation.
Michel.
---Sent: 2016-01-29 16:23:06 UTC