Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL for VAX on NetBSD/OpenBSD
Patrick Finnegan <[email protected]> Sun, 29 Jun 2014 15:30:41 -0400
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On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Dave McGuire <[email protected]> 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? ;)) > If it works, someone should update the documentation. :) Which flavor of 11/78x MP? The official DEC kind (which is really just two computers with a block of shared memory) or the Purdue kind (which isn't quite SMP, but actually shares the system bus)? Pat