Re: areas of study for use in misc mup21 and f21 applications

[dcr@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dan C. Rinnert)]

garyl@nvmedia.com,Internet writes:
>But now one F21 has many
>times the power of a PDP 8 or so and it is not hard to see one person 
>using 10 F21s for a price comparable to a midprice pc clone. I would
>like to see experimental systems in which one F21 is used for the code
>development and others are used for other operating system functions, 
>such as object oriented disk system, flowchart display, debugging tools, 
>print rendering, and graphics display. 
> 	Any thoughts on these or other subjects?

What about using a RISC processor, such as the PowerPC, as a "master"
processor, with several F21s as "slaves"?  The PowerPC would handle the core
OS functions, and route/delegate other processes to best be handled, either
by itself or one or more of the F21s.

Or, perhaps the PowerPC could act as a server, while the F21s act as clients?
 On second thought, perhaps the former is a better way.