[Simh] VAX 8200

[Anders Magnusson]

I can note here that we ran a 4-CPU 8350 (8354? :-)  with Ultrix. Worked 
very well!

This was also the machine which I used when writing the NetBSD vax SMP 
support.

-- Ragge

Den 2017-03-16 kl. 21:17, skrev Dan Gahlinger:
> the vax smp emulator seems to support that theory.
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> Dan
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> -------- Original message --------
> From: Robert Armstrong <bob at jfcl.com>
> Date: 2017-03-16 4:07 PM (GMT-05:00)
> To: 'Ethan Dicks' <ethan.dicks at gmail.com>, simh at trailing-edge.com
> Subject: Re: [Simh] VAX 8200
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> > Ethan Dicks (ethan.dicks at gmail.com) wrote:
> >I happen to have one (from when I worked for Jim Ebright).
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>   I have a running 8350 as well, should you need a dump of the console 
> media or something.
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>   It is, I believe, the physically smallest BI bus VAX, and therefore 
> interesting for those reason.  It's the only such machine that I could 
> fit in my garage :-)
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>   It's also the only multi-processor VAX system that I have and 
> equally interesting for that reason too.  FWIW, I've always wondered 
> if the limitation to two CPUs was purely for testing and support 
> reasons - it doesn't seem that there's any reason why you could not 
> plug in three or even more CPU cards.
>
> Bob Armstrong
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