PDP-8/e and terminals in West Sussex, UK

der Mouse mouse at Rodents-Montreal.ORG
Wed Nov 5 23:15:39 CST 2008


>> Would something like a Purdue Dual VAX count?

I would say it would.

> Just out of curiosity, are you referring to a VAX-11/782?

No.  I don't know much about the Purdue hack, but I know it wasn't a
782.  The 782 was DEC doing a dual 780 their way; the Purdue machine
was George Gobel (I think that was the name) doing it his way.  I don't
know enough about either way to be comptent to contrast them, but
everything I've heard says they are quite distinctly different.

(I know this because, time was, I was OS support for a robotics
researcher who was using a dual-CPU VAX - a MicroVAX-II with a KA620
added on - and as a result I learned a little about other
multiprocessor VAXen.)

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