Avalon AP/10A attached processor for VAX.

[David E. Miran]

I recently received a brochure from Avalon Computer Systems for
their AP/10A attached processor system.
It is an auxiliary cpu that plugs into the VAX unibus.
You add a device driver and recompile your programs so that they
will be loaded into the new cpu rather than run by the VAX cpu.
It apparently runs only one process at a time in the attached processor.
It is supposed to run somewhat faster than a VAX-11/750.
Supposedly you can attach several of them to a VAX.
At about $7,000 for one and quantity discounts it sounds promising.
Has anyone actually tried one of these?  Is it worth the trouble?
How do you deal with someone trying program1|program2|program3
where more than one of the programs has been compiled to run on the
attached processor.
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