Triprocessor PDP-10 [Was: Re: [multicians] Emacs humor]

[Rich Alderson]

From: Pontus Pihlgren
Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2015 11:30 PM

> On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 06:47:12PM +0000, Rich Alderson wrote:

>> From: Pontus Pihlgren
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2015 12:19 AM

>>> On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 02:13:06AM +0000, Rich Alderson wrote:

>>>>     KL-10/PDP-10/PDP-6 triprocessor, and KL-10/PDP-10 dual processor and

>>> You make it sound like someone hacked up a computer consisting of one 
>>> KL-10, one PDP-10 and one PDP-6. But I assume you mean homogenic 
>>> three-processor machines?

>> You assume incorrectly.  I mean exactly what it sounds like.

> Wow, that's impressive. How was it done? Was it done with DEC or was it 
> a local "hack"?

As far as I know, it was a local hack, but if you really care I can ask my
friends who were the systems programmers on SAIL back in the day.

                                                                Rich


Rich Alderson
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