[Info-vax] "The Machine"

[Stephen Hoffman]

"It is, in many ways, a complete rethinking of the future of computers 
and computing, but there is a fairly long way to go between here and 
there."

Early work is with 64-bit ARM SoC compute nodes.

Bank switching memory, for now: "...wrestling with the limits of the 
48-bit addresses used by the 64-bit ARM and Intel CPUs."

Clustering could probably be gotten to work and Galaxy might also be 
feasible with a reworked SMCI-like widget, though OpenVMS itself would 
need a substantial overhaul to operate a single image configuration, as 
there is "no cache coherence within the enormous memory pool."

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