[FreeVMS] VMS?

[Rien Timmer]

Renee,

Your memory is a bit off, I'm afraid. SMP was introduced in VMS 5.0, 
version 4 had ASMP.

Rien.

On 2011-04-25 05:01, Renee wrote:
> 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
> To: FreeVMS mailing list
> 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?
>

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Rien Timmer
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