From: Todd Killingsworth Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2015 11:18 AM >> Lots of places. The folks at Oak Ridge ("Atomic City") ran a 5-processor >> SMP configuration.
> Rich - can you elaborate on this any? Which facility, what was it used > for? I've got family from Oak Ridge, and its unusual for my vintage > computer / atomic history to intersect like this. Sorry, all I know about the site is mentions in passing by DEC LCG alumni who worked there at one time or another, in Usenet postings to groups such as alt.folklore.computers. To quote an example: % From: jmfbahciv <jmfbahciv@aol> % Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers % Subject: Re: Status of Arpanet/Internet in 1976? % Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:24:48 -0400 % Organization: NewsGuy - Unlimited Usenet $19.95 % Lines: 29 % Message-ID: <h9d3fq42...@news2.newsguy.com> % References: <0fa0c23a-1eba-4f86-817b-b81a6e851...@j19g2000vbp.googlegroups.com> % <m3ocp4x9x1....@garlic.com> <w9zzl8ovu08....@zipcon.net> % <m3d45j9efp....@garlic.com> <m38wg79e5e....@garlic.com> % <8ba34ebf-84cd-41d9-9b2e-906782595...@n2g2000vba.googlegroups.com> % % JMF's first assignment at DEC in 1970 was to make PDP-10s, PDP-11s, % PDP-12, and some IBM machine yak at each other in Oak Ridge. % I don't remember which facility it was; a decade later, the same % site was running a 5-CPU SMP PDP-10 system, and still serving % as the backend to the IBM system. % % /BAH Rich Rich Alderson Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer Living Computer Museum 2245 1st Avenue S Seattle, WA 98134 mailto:ri...@livingcomputermuseum.org http://www.LivingComputerMuseum.org/