On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Christian Johansson wrote:

> Hi!

Hello.

> We have two VAX 6000 machines here which are operated by a computer club in
> Sodertalje/Sweden. They are currently two 6430/256Mb, but we have laid our
> hands on 3 500 CPUs which we will put in one of them.

Congratulations. But be warned that the 500 and 600 CPUs don't neccesarily
work in the 400 cab. The [56]00 requires a different backplane than some
earlier VAX-6000 machines.

> How many 400 CPUs can one put in one machine? I thought the maximum was
> 4 but then I have heard theese rumors that one could have 6 400 CPUs in 
> a 6000 I you ran OpenVMS 6.2 or later?

Correct, though I'm not sure when VMS added support for 6 CPUs.

	Johnny

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