Subject: Re: VAX now runs multicpu!
To: Jarkko Teppo <jarkko.teppo@er-grp.com>
From: Vance Dereksen <vance@ikickass.org>
List: tech-smp
Date: 05/30/2001 18:09:24
I wonder how fast an 11/784 would go. 8-)

Peace...  Sridhar

On Wed, 30 May 2001, Jarkko Teppo wrote:

> Quoting Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>:
> 
> > I just got a VAX 8350 with 3 CPUs to use all three processors.
> > I have tested it a little, and it seems to work quite fine :-)
> > It shouldn't be too hard to make it running on some funnier
> > machines, like the 8800 and the 6000 series.
> 
> M u s t   g e t   m y   8 3 5 0   t o   r u n !!!
> Congrats! I'll try to get my 8350 up in a few weeks,
> I really really really want to test this:)
> 
> > 
> > The VAX 8350 system is probably the slowest multiprocessor system
> > that NetBSD will ever support; each CPU does about 2VUPS (~2MIPS) :-)
> > 
> 
> If someone writes HP FOCUS backend for gcc and if I'll get
> some technical docs I have a three CPU HP 9000/550 which would 
> beat that. How about SMP with 1 MIPS/proc :-)? And then there's 
> 11/782 which would about par with the 550.
> 
> Is the kernel available for download somewhere ? I might be able to test it
> with a suitable userland if I can find those. 
> 
> Once again, thanks a lot!!
> -- 
> jht
>