Subject: Re: SMP (was Re: VXLOCK race? )
To: Erik E. Fair <fair@clock.org>
From: Thorsten Lockert <tholo@SigmaSoft.COM>
List: tech-kern
Date: 05/16/1996 23:14:01
> There is also some useful discussion of technique for a master/slave
> two-headed VAX 11/780 running 4.1 (and later 4.2) BSD UNIX in a paper by
> George Goble, which can be found at
>
> http://ghg.ecn.purdue.edu/
>
> in a series of GIF files (I guess he lost the original [nt]roff source).
> You can also look at the interesting photos of George lighting a BBQ grill
> with LOX (and I don't mean smoked fish).
Seems he has generated HTML versions of the paper too. However, the paper
really discuss only how to make a dual-processor 11/780 (almost, but not
quite, a 11/782). The software changes (based on 4.1) is not discussed due
to licensing issues.
Thorsten
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