Symmetric multiprocessing: Difference between revisions

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| version = Fourth Edition

| date = September 1968

| url = http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/360/funcChar/A22-6884-3_360-65_funcChar.pdf}}</ref> and 67-267–2.<ref>{{cite book

| publisher = IBM

| title = IBM System/360 Model 67 Functional Characteristics

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| version = Third Edition

| date = February 1972}}</ref> The operating systems that ran on these machines were [[OS/360]] M65MP<ref>[http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/800186.810634 M65MP: An Experiment in OS/360 multiprocessing]</ref> and [[TSS/360]]. Other software developed at universities, notably the [[Michigan Terminal System]] (MTS), used both CPUs. Both processors could access data channels and initiate I/O. In OS/360 M65MP, peripherals could generally be attached to either processor since the operating system kernel ran on both processors (though with a "big lock" around the I/O handler).<ref>{{cite book |url=http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/360/os/R21.7_Apr73/plm/GY28-6616-9_OS_IO_Superv_PLM_R21.7_Apr73.pdf |title=Program Logic Manual, OS I/O Supervisor Logic, Release 21 (R21.7) |publisher=IBM |id=GY28-6616-9 |edition=Tenth |date=April 1973}}</ref> The MTS supervisor (UMMPS) has the ability to run on both CPUs of the IBM System/360 model 67-267–2. Supervisor locks were small and used to protect individual common data structures that might be accessed simultaneously from either CPU.<ref>[https://1a9f2076-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.googlegroups.com/site/michiganterminalsystem/documentation/documents/timeSharingSupervisorPrograms-1971.pdf?attachauth=ANoY7crPBadRVtxTmN8sqSjFc3xC84Q_pDpvpRo7VRWz0_Ql-UKQ2SVe6hJ7lVOjGZbLkOSXco8c9_ZI6TmQZS8EpBTMlByIPM4iByyUXlXE__YfWN0jqwIQglhyvR0oSxl0I_C0JenDItLzN4btLtkug9HSHRX1s-WtlkSQ-pzJLpczJYsuzTvZVIggSTW0arjTnQsls6xcrCsMcyl58Y98Q0Sw2yecmFLiTcYjnYrgAhLGSu9b2s28oV04R6_6p6fD8UUjvnRawHn7N6qFgRIEuGj4QuZlkthZM5_fZwaPyXvLxccgLCk%3D&attredirects=0 ''Time Sharing Supervisor Programs''] by Mike Alexander (May 1971) has information on MTS, TSS, CP/67, and Multics</ref>

Other mainframes that supported SMP included the [[UNIVAC 1100/2200 series#1108|UNIVAC 1108 II]], released in 1965, which supported up to three CPUs, and the [[GE-600 series|GE-635 and GE-645]],<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ge/GE-6xx/CPB-371A_GE-635_System_Man_Jul64.pdf|title=GE-635 System Manual|date=July 1964|publisher=[[General Electric]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ge/GE-645/GE-645_SystemMan_Jan68.pdf|title=GE-645 System Manual|date=January 1968|publisher=General Electric}}</ref> although [[GECOS]] on multiprocessor GE-635 systems ran in a master-slave asymmetric fashion, unlike [[Multics]] on multiprocessor GE-645 systems, which ran in a symmetric fashion.<ref>{{cite newsgroup|url=https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.folklore.computers/v-hkdKaPTXc/MX7UI3DgOokJ|title=Fear of Multiprocessing?|author=Richard Shetron|date=May 5, 1998|newsgroup=alt.folklore.computers|message-id=[e-mail]}}</ref>