[FreeVMS] VMS?

[Renee]

That's great. I was advocating SMP.

I was last at vms the day we shipped the last of version 5.5 in late 92. So
I was there was 32 bit stuff an no 64 bit stuff.

Renee

-----Original Message-----
From: freevms-bounces at rayleigh.systella.fr
[mailto:freevms-bounces at rayleigh.systella.fr] On Behalf Of Roar Thronæs
Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2011 10:03 PM
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Subject: Re: [FreeVMS] VMS?

On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 05:48:33PM -0400, Renee wrote:
> VMS had ASMP and that needs to made into symmetric multiprocessing which
> means locking has to be beefed up. So far
> I don't know what has been done for Symmetric multiple processing which
will
> affect us. 
> At this point I'm temped to come with you all. Because the exec can't be
vms
> in the 32 bit sense. BUT it can still be a solid
> exec with DCL on it. I need information on what what you all have. Before
we
> go further.

The more recent kernel books describe SMP, and I did implement that.
No ASMP support there, because the PC is not ASMP.

When were you involved with VMS last?

-- 
Regards,
Roar Thronæs
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