At 10:54 AM 1/26/98 +0100, Varga Akos Endre wrote:

>-I don't know very much about the 11/782, the name suggests that it would
>be a two-processor system, probably ASMP. I remember seeing it somewhere
>that this was out in '82. 
>There was another custom series of two-780-processor systems, you can find
>out more about that at http://www.ghg.ecn.purdue.edu/vax/paper.html

The 11/782 is two 11/780 systems connected together via a (MA780?) 4Mb
shared memory cabinet. This system supported ASMP and the story I heard of
at the time (from a reliable friend within Digital) was that the person
responsible for the changes required to support ASMP did it over a weekend....

There was a 11/782 at Melbourne University (not far from here) and due to
the inherent problems of ASMP (all I/O and kernel processing had to occur
on the master system) found that they got much better performance splitting
it into two 11/780s...

There were also rumors of our Defence Department running an 11/787 (two
11/785s in an ASMP system).

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