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There was a 4x4 machine, but it was pushing the power supplies to their extreme limits. Not many were sold. Edit: You got the -PLUS suffix by adding the Unix p
by Suzuran 3y ago
There was a 4x4 machine, but it was pushing the power supplies to their extreme limits. Not many were sold.
Edit: You got the -PLUS suffix by adding the Unix processor, of which there could be only one, so the largest configuration would be a LAMBDA-4x4-PLUS having four Lisp processors (and consoles) sharing a Unix.
- p_l 3y agoNice! I only ever came upon reference to 2x2, but it seemed rather obvious that there wasn't a hard limit - I just thought you couldn't fit more into card cage.
- Suzuran 3y agoThere is a hard limit imposed by the backplane - It's four though, not two. Each Lambda processor is four boards and they share a 4-slot private interconnect in the third row of the backplane. Four such interconnects are provided.