From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-vax
Newsgroups: fa.info-vax
Title: 11/782
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.433
Posted: Sat Dec 18 23:36:49 1982
Received: Sun Dec 19 08:37:55 1982

>From COWER@SRI-KL  Thu Dec 16 21:43:03 1982
Mail-From: ARPANET host SRI-KL rcvd at 18-Dec-82 1754-PST
To: info.vax@SRI-CSL
Remailed-Date: 18 Dec 1982 1809-PST
Remailed-From: the tty of Geoffrey S. Goodfellow  <Geoff5 at SRI-CSL>
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The 782 takes it memory in shared boxes (MA780's). The MA780 can
have up to 4 meg - with 2 meg per controller. When DEC first released
the 782 they advised 1/4 meg in each processor - to be used only
for diagnostics. They have since upped this to 1/2 meg per processor,
as they claim you need it to build floppies, etc. Keeping more
memory in the processors might be ok for storage.
A warning - if anyone out there is putting up a 782 - beware - the
DEC release of BOOTBUILDER (to build your boot floppies) has a
very nasty bug that will not let you not see the top 2 meg. It may
be fixed by now. We had a lot of trouble with this.

..Rich Cower
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