| From: | Patrick Finnegan <pat(at)computer-refuge(dot)org> |
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| To: | Dave McGuire <mcguire(at)neurotica(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Patrick Finnegan <pat(at)computer-refuge(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, John Klos <john(at)ziaspace(dot)com>, port-vax(at)netbsd(dot)org, vax(at)openbsd(dot)org, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: PostgreSQL for VAX on NetBSD/OpenBSD |
| Date: | 2014-06-29 19:30:41 |
| Message-ID: | CAADZ-4PdUVofWdU7f0cVHnXjGYgtHbrhDayADc_GmUbygPptNA@mail.gmail.com |
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On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire(at)neurotica(dot)com> wrote:
> On 06/29/2014 03:10 PM, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> > And it also runs on the 11/780 which can have multiple CPUs... but I've
> > never seen support for using more than one CPU (and the NetBSD page
> > still says "NetBSD/vax can only make use of one CPU on multi-CPU
> > machines"). If that has changed, I'd love to hear about it. Support
> > for my VAX 6000 would also be nice...
>
> It changed well over a decade ago, if memory serves. The specific
> work was done on a VAX-8300 or -8350. I'm pretty sure the 11/780's
> specific flavor of SMP is not supported. (though I do have a pair of
> 11/785s here...wanna come hack? ;))
>
If it works, someone should update the documentation. :)
Which flavor of 11/78x MP? The official DEC kind (which is really just two
computers with a block of shared memory) or the Purdue kind (which isn't
quite SMP, but actually shares the system bus)?
Pat
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