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To: BEAM List beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Rob Rix asterix_fx@mac.com
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 00:36:57 -0500
Subject: Master/Slave Question


Hi! It's me, back after so long lurking!

Anyhow, on to a question:

I was recently going through the fantastic paper on the bicore by Wouter
Brok (housed by BEAM Online), and noticed the coupled (master/slave) bicore.
It seemed that he had coupled a suspended bicore with your regular kind.
This was not at all surprising, shocking, or anything like that, but it led
to a few questions:
Can you couple two suspended bicores together?
Can you couple a regular bicore to a suspended one, instead of the other way
around?
Can you couple two regular bicores together?
Can you couple a bunch of bicores, all the same kind?
Can you couple mixed groups of bicores together?
And finally:
Can you couple a suspended bicore to a microcore built on the 240 chip?

Thanks for your help, and thanks also to whoever it was who made that
caterpillar bot (I think I mean the one that was entered into Chiu's contest
so long ago...).

Peace!

-- Rob Rix

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