Subject: Re: no MP support on 785?
To: Johnny Billquist <bqt@update.uu.se>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 10/07/2001 10:48:13
On October 7, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> >   Given that, it might be better to think of the 782 as a
> > "configuration" of two 780s with a shared memory option rather than a
> > separate model of VAX in its own right.
> 
> My memory is a bit fuzzy, but I'm not sure this is correct.
> 
> In the 11/782, you have two 11/780s with shared memory. But one of the
> systems acted as a slave to the other. All I/O was done through only one
> of the systems. The other was just a CPU resource.

  Sure...but that sounds to me like more of an issue of OS support
than hardware..

     -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Laurel, MD