[FreeVMS] VMS?

[Renee]

Actually, I was in the Clusters and I/O group. Believe it or not, we were
not informed, or knew that ASMP had gone away. At some point, I realized
there was locking which is important to SMP but thet never told us that SMP
had been added to vms. Great company but awful in communications at
corporate. The field was far better.

 

Renrr

 

From: freevms-bounces at rayleigh.systella.fr
[mailto:freevms-bounces at rayleigh.systella.fr] On Behalf Of Rien Timmer
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2011 3:39 AM
To: FreeVMS mailing list
Subject: Re: [FreeVMS] VMS?

 

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
 
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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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