[Simh] VAX 8200

[Pontus Pihlgren]

Anders generously donated this machine to me. I think it currently has 
three CPUs.

It sounds like there are a few running 8350 machines out there. But if 
the simh works requires another one I could bump it up the TODO-list.

/P

On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 09:57:12PM +0100, Anders Magnusson wrote:
> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >Dan
> >
> >
> >-------- 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
> >
> >> Ethan Dicks (ethan.dicks at gmail.com) wrote:
> >>I happen to have one (from when I worked for Jim Ebright).
> >
> >  I have a running 8350 as well, should you need a dump of the console
> >media or something.
> >
> >  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 :-)
> >
> >  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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