26 Jul
2001
26 Jul
'01
12:44 p.m.
Date: Thu, 26
Jul 2001 07:02:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ethan Dicks <ethan_dicks(a)yahoo.com>
The 782 was the DEC solution, using a multiported memory (MA780).
Each CPU had it's own SBI, with private UBA's and MBA's (UNIBUS and
MASSBUSS adapters); The 11/782 was dual cpu 11/780's with shared
memory bus run
master-slave for compute bound tasks with the i/o run off of one
cpu.
Right. Developed by George Goble (of the LOX-on-the-BBQ fame), et. al, at
Purdue, IIRC. Disclaimer;
I worked at DEC in the 80's, but on 36-bit products.
(and briefly on the 64-bit RISC machine, codenamed "SAFE",
which, after Cutler grabbed the project, was renamed PRISM).
Hmm... how close was it to Alpha AXP -- almost exactly prism?
Bill
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