24 Oct
2005
24 Oct
'05
2:20 a.m.
On Sun, 23 Oct 2005, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:
Johnny Billquist wrote:
There basically isn't any (hardware, that is).
The 11/782 was not an SMP design. It was two CPUs with shared memory,
where one CPU acted as a slave to the other. All I/O was on the primary
CPU as well. The second CPU was just a computing resource.
I haven't (yet) found any references to any interconnect hardware apart
But the hardware I still keep around is much more
interesting... :-)
Sometime in the future, I wouldn't mind trying to put an 11/782
together. Anyone know where I might be able to find some information
about the interconnect hardware? from the dual-ported memory boxes.
Maybe someone else knows some more details?
Appearantly, it wasn't much faster than a normal 11/780 either, so some of
the machines appearantly got split up into two separate 11/780s instead.
Johnny
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