Matt Burke wrote:
> I probably should have researched memory barriers a bit more.
> I knew a little bit about them but wasn't sure if they were needed here.
> The problem may also exist for the rest of the shared memory.
For the purposes of running VMS, what really and ultimately matters is no
> On May 25, 2017, at 6:51 PM, Matt Burke wrote:
>
> On 25/05/2017 04:03, Sergey Oboguev wrote:
>> Superficially looking at (AS)MP VMS code, it appears that the following
>> should (hopefully) suffice for correct operation:
>>
>> 1. BBSSI and BBCCI should acquire a lock when accessing the memo
On 25/05/2017 04:03, Sergey Oboguev wrote:
> Superficially looking at (AS)MP VMS code, it appears that the
> following should (hopefully) suffice for correct operation:
>
> 1. BBSSI and BBCCI should acquire a lock when accessing the memory
> location. A simplistic implementation may use one lock fo
Curiously enough, 11/782 and other MA780-based models were not the only
multiprocessor design based on the 11/780.
Some brave souls just took out the SBI terminator and hooked in a second KA780
CPU in its place, using the created dual-processor machine to develop what
appears to be the very fir
