From:	"David M Girardot (Girardot, David)" <GIRARDOT@********>
Subject:	Robert's Question about Multitasking
Date:	Mon, 5 Oct 92 11:16:16 edt

Robert, IMHO, not without a lot of nuyen. First of all, you'd need at least
3 encephalons, I would think. One handles normal input, another handle's
extra input, and the third coodinates the other two. Now, you'd probably say
that I/O SPU's ought to be able to handle this, but I really think not: I
don't think they're powerful enough. Additionally, onto two of the
Encephalon's there ought to be at least 2 SPU's each, one data management (>a
buffer) and one I/O (think of it as a 16550a UART).

On the other hand, you could do a similar thing with less nuyen. That would
be just 2 SPUs (data and IO) and some memory. You could "offload" active
tasks to this "buffer" and pick up on them later. (Kind of like swapping to
disk)...

IMHO this kind of thing would be tres useful for Corp types, and even mages.
Just think, you could offload an enchanting task to mem and take that phone
call...

--David