Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL for VAX on NetBSD/OpenBSD

Johnny Billquist <[email protected]> Sun, 29 Jun 2014 12:41:27 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.ports.vax,gmane.os.openbsd.vax,gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.general
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On 2014-06-29 12:12, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On 06/29/2014 03:10 PM, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
>> And it also runs on the 11/780 which can have multiple CPUs... but I've
>> never seen support for using more than one CPU (and the NetBSD page
>> still says "NetBSD/vax can only make use of one CPU on multi-CPU
>> machines").  If that has changed, I'd love to hear about it.  Support
>> for my VAX 6000 would also be nice...
>
>    It changed well over a decade ago, if memory serves.  The specific
> work was done on a VAX-8300 or -8350.  I'm pretty sure the 11/780's
> specific flavor of SMP is not supported.  (though I do have a pair of
> 11/785s here...wanna come hack? ;))

Well, VAX-11/78x do not support SMP, they have (had) ASMP only.

	Johnny