Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!ames!amdahl!pacbell!belltec!lance From: lance@belltec.UUCP (Lance Norskog) Newsgroups: comp.sys.isis Subject: Re: ISIS suggestions Summary: shared memory & fiber optics Message-ID: <409@belltec.UUCP> Date: 8 Oct 89 02:13:53 GMT References: <32799@cornell.UUCP> Organization: Bell Technologies, Fremont, CA Lines: 12 About using shared memory: some academic group (I'm soooo precise) is working on a network card that just implements a shared memory address space by sending memory location updates over fiber optics. It's called PRAM, Parallel RAM. The protocol turns out to be pretty fast at these memory update transactions, because it's a very simple one implemented by a hardware state machine. This makes shared memory-based protocols more interesting... -- Lance C Norskog Sales Engineer, Streamlined Networks thinman@cup.portal.com: 415-659-1450