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The "multi-little" approach

05/16/2009

This is really crazy. Since modern operating systems such as Linux always try to distribute process among available processors, it occurred to me that I could build a machine using many little microprocessors each of them being capable of handling a user process.

By "little microprocessors" I mean cheap ones, such as the legendary Z80. They lack a "protected mode", indeed, but this were something to be handled by an "arbitror" circuit (anyways needed), not by the processor itself.

Hey, Craig... could you please prove this proposition for me using your so called "Object-Z notation"?

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