gauging interest in VAX 6000-530 - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

26 Oct 1999

On Oct 26, 17:38, Chris Kennedy wrote:
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  Subject: Re: gauging interest in VAX 6000-530
 Mike Cheponis wrote: 
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  > Relevance to old iron? Because old iron had lots
of busses, new ones don't.
...

 Why is that? 
 Because it isn't the case. 
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  Other examples include the
 Cray/whatever 6400 SMP, Pyramid Nile, Sequent S5000 and I suspect
 the SGI Challenge and HP T500, although I'd have to check. 
Correct, the Challenge (and indeed even the Indigos and Indys) have a
separate GIO bus for various purposes.  And SGI Origin machines have a
crossbar switch arrangement instead of a single bus, IIRC.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York