On Thu 13 Jun, 2002, Rick Kelly <rmk@toad.rmkhome.com> wrote:
> Ken Seefried said:
> 
> Sequent had NUMA, clustering, and good mutex libraries long before other
> UNIX vendors even thought of it.

Were the Symmetry machines genuinely NUMA? Did Dynix (or whatever OS they
ran at the time) actually have provision for handling that differently from
UMA SMP?

The earliest commercial NUMA I was aware of was from Data General who just
pipped SGI and Sequent to launching a 64-processor NUMA sometime around
97/98.

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