Comments on: MULTIPROCESSOR WITH 64 BIT PROCESSING POWER. (Jan, 1983)

By: fluffy

fluffy — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:03:00 +0000

There was probably an additional 64k of shared memory between all the processors.

By: roland

roland — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:59:24 +0000

Can anybody explain, how 8 processor boards with 128K RAM each add up to 1088K?

By: fluffy

fluffy — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 05:02:50 +0000

So Atari and SNK were just following a precedent when they marketed the Jaguar and the Neo-Geo, then.

By: Barry Berlin

Barry Berlin — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:00:42 +0000

At least it didn’t come with Windows Vista.

By: Anne

Anne — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:37:34 +0000

I’m impressed by the 1GB of hard drive space. How many drives did they have to put together for that one? That wasn’t all on ONE drive back then, was it?

By: nlpnt

nlpnt — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:09:01 +0000

Agreed, Jerry! SLAVENET sounds more like 1984 than January, 1983.

By: Casandro

Casandro — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:43:25 +0000

Ohh those video-backup systems were a niece-market for a while.
Those ultra-cheap VCRs (VHS, Beta, V2000, etc) were _far_ to unreliable for it and you could get propper data drives for the price of a cheap VCR (eg U-Matic).

By: Jerry

Jerry — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:55:23 +0000

“SLAVENET” is a really unfortunate name for anything.

By: Nick Moffitt

Nick Moffitt — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:23:37 +0000

Ha! Because eight 8-bit Z-80s totals to 64 bits! Brilliant!

My co-worker reminds me that the Amiga used to have backup utilities that modulated your data out the PAL port. So you could record your backups to video tapes that would play as a scramble pattern of colored pixels on the screen. Unfortunately you needed a videotoaster to be able to read them back IN…

By: Gregly

Gregly — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:20:06 +0000

Wow… calling eight 8-bit processors slaved together a “64-bit” system. That’s a good one. I, too, have made a 64-bit system: sixty-four one-bit processors working in parallel. It’s totally the same thing!