10 Oct
2003
10 Oct
'03
12:41 p.m.
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Eric Smith wrote:
1) The bus interface could be configured to be a bus
requester rather
than the system bus arbiter. This has to be done on all CPUs other
than the first. (Note that the VAX 11/780 was also capable of this,
as discovered and exploited by George Goble).
Don't forget that Mike Marsh also was involved in this, and did most of
the hardware work on the "Dual-VAX". As someone who has the pleasure of
working for him, it seems like he doesn't really get enough credit for
being the co-inventor of SMP Unix...
Well, that's my $0.02
Pat
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