[rescue] SMP on intel wasteful?

[Dave McGuire]

  Ack, Stephen, I just re-read my reply to your mail.  This Chris kid
has me in a bad mood; I hadn't intended my response to your email to
sound so adversarial.  I apologize if it came out that way.

        -Dave

On June 24, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On June 24, Stephen D. B. Wolthusen wrote:
> > > Then look at
> > > ROM monitor ("BIOS" for you PeeCee guys) support.  Four partitions?
> > > No diag capabilities?  No analog of "environment variable" support to
> > > pass defaults to the booting OS?  Come ON, the VAX had that in 1978.
> > 
> > No. The 11/780 (which I assume is what you mean) most definitely did not have a
> > ROM monitor. It had an LSI-11. And depending on what functions you need, it
> > wasn't ROM, it was an RX01/RX02. 
> 
>   I hadn't intended to speak in such specific terms, but yes, you are
> indeed correct...it was a pdp11/03 with an RX floppy drive in the
> bottom of the 11/780 CPU cabinet.  What I meant was basically this:
> You can walk up to the console after powering up the machine and
> *interact* with it before booting...setting parameters, running
> diagnostics, etc.  Yes,
> 
> > ROM came only with the 11/750, which was after '78 as far as I know.
> 
>   The 11/750 was indeed after the /780.  It also booted its microcode
> and monitor from a separate (i.e. non-CPU) device...a TU58 tape drive.
> 
>         -Dave
> 
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Dave McGuire                  "Needing a calculator indicates that
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