On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Eric Smith wrote:
> 1) The bus interface could be configured to be a bus requester rather
> than the system bus arbiter. This has to be done on all CPUs other
> than the first. (Note that the VAX 11/780 was also capable of this,
> as discovered and exploited by George Goble).
Don't forget that Mike Marsh also was involved in this, and did most of
the hardware work on the "Dual-VAX". As someone who has the pleasure of
working for him, it seems like he doesn't really get enough credit for
being the co-inventor of SMP Unix...
Well, that's my $0.02
Pat
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Received on Fri Oct 10 2003 - 19:41:38 BST