On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Anders Magnusson wrote:

> The "basic" 11/782 has a master CPU with 2 MBA, 1 UBA, 512KB local memory,
> a MA780 with 256KB shared mem and a slave CPU without I/O adapters but
> with 256K local mem.  The machine was easily expanded with I/O adapters on
> the slave CPU and with more memory, both local and shared. It was also
> sold as a "dual 11/780 system" where it had already been equipped with
> I/O adapters on the slave, and just used the memory as a fast way to
> communicate. The 11/782 that smugglers were trying to get over to the
> Soviet Union ~20 years ago were such machine; I was offered it some years
> ago from FOA (the Swedish Defence research centre), and it was _very_
> well equipped :-)

	Not that it would be an effective use of the hardware, but would
	you be able to run a 'classic' SMP configuration by only using the
	shared memory?

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