On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 12:57:07PM -0700, Brian Chase wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Akos Varga wrote:
> 
> > > 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
> 
> I'm less curious about what the designation is than I am about what they
> were using this system for back in the days of the Cold War :-)

Illegally selling it to Moscow, to make sure their progress in military
computing is blocked for two years while trying to make it work effectively?

	-is

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