Subject: Re: no MP support on 785?
To: None <port-vax@netbsd.org, is@netbsd.org>
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt@update.uu.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 10/06/2001 23:51:59
On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:

> Ragge,
> 
> Long, long ago, you wrote:
> 
>  The VAX 8350 system is probably the slowest multiprocessor system              
>  that NetBSD will ever support; each CPU does about 2VUPS (~2MIPS) :-)          
> 
> No 785? hm, I know the other CPU doesn't have access to I/O, but is this a
> Problem? Or is the memory non-shared?

The 11/785 is a souped-up 11/780. You are probably thinking of the 11/782.
Since this isn't an SMP system, NetBSD probably never will have any
support for it.

	Johnny

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