Subject: Re: Name the VAX!
To: Eric Smith <eric@brouhaha.com>
From: Akos Varga <hamster@telnet.hu>
List: port-vax
Date: 04/21/2000 21:39:58
> 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
Btw it runs a patched version of VMS 4.x , and I was just curious
if someone ever encountered a machine like this :) This beast was
certainly built without any DEC SSG intervention :)
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