On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Akos Varga wrote:

> > Sounds like an 11/782 that's been upgraded to 785 CPUs; I've heard those
> > called 11/787, but I don't know that there was ever an official designation.
> 
> Nonono, thes are two (upgraded) 11/782's sharing memory :) It looks
> like this:
> 
>  first asymmetric                     second asymmetric
>  multiprocessor VAX                   multiprocessor VAX
> 
>  11/785       11/785                  11/785      11/785
>  master <-->  slave                   slave  <--> master 
>    |                                                 |                     
>     \________________multiport memory_______________/
>                             box

I'm less curious about what the designation is than I am about what they
were using this system for back in the days of the Cold War :-)

-brian.
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