Re: PostgreSQL for VAX on NetBSD/OpenBSD - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Patrick Finnegan
Subject Re: PostgreSQL for VAX on NetBSD/OpenBSD
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Msg-id CAADZ-4PdUVofWdU7f0cVHnXjGYgtHbrhDayADc_GmUbygPptNA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: PostgreSQL for VAX on NetBSD/OpenBSD  (Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>)
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On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com> 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

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