re: multi-processing with PICs

   Actually, you can look at PICs as low-cost, programmable, `glue logic'...
I've been using them as remote (repeater) displays on my weather station
project.

   - Tom

At 06:06 PM 6/5/97 GMT, you wrote:
>In message  <199706051616.JAA00657@netcom8.netcom.com> PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> writes:
>> On the subject of multi-processor systems, Mike Watson wrote:
>>
>> >Synergy does not apply to multi-processor systems. You always end up
>> >with less than the sum of the parts because of the overhead of sharing
>> >data.
[snip]

>> True, but don't knock multi-processor systems too hard.  I was the chief
>> software / firmware architect on a professional computer-based system with
[snip]

>I don't. I am a big fan of distributed processing. The control system
>we sell has at its core 2 processors with up to 20 other processors
>around handling hardware specific bits and pieces. It is pretty much
>object oriented hardware.
>
>Regards,
>
>Mike Watson