[Info-vax] OpenVMS I64 V8.1 "Evaluation Release"?

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2012-03-22 17.15, John Reagan wrote:
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> "Johnny Billquist" wrote in message
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>> I searched around (thanks for the hints) on that machine. And that is
>> what is addressable by the system. It does not tell how much a single
>> CPU can address, which is (obviously) not 3 TB. That is not a power of
>> 2, so the actual answer for what one z196 CPU can address is less than
>> 3 TB.
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> True. The 3TB is certainly limited by memory bus architecture, power,
> slot count, etc. and perhaps just the most they were willing to run QA on.

Not to mention the fact that the machine can have 80 CPUs... Does all 
CPUs have the same kind of access to all memory? Probably not. It's 
called NUMA.

	Johnny