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Renee,<br>
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Your memory is a bit off, I'm afraid. SMP was introduced in VMS 5.0,
version 4 had ASMP.<br>
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Rien.<br>
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On 2011-04-25 05:01, Renee wrote:
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<pre wrap="">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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On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 05:48:33PM -0400, Renee wrote:
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<pre wrap="">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
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<pre wrap="">will
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<pre wrap="">affect us.
At this point I'm temped to come with you all. Because the exec can't be
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<pre wrap="">vms
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<pre wrap="">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
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<pre wrap="">we
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<pre wrap="">go further.
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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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