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From: sritacco@hpdml93.HP.COM (Steve Ritacco)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: RISC multiprocessors
Message-ID: <280004@hpdml93.HP.COM>
Date: 9 Nov 89 16:35:47 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard - Boise, ID
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The R3000 (mips) has support for necessary multiprocessing features
built in.  There is support for reading from the data cache and invalidating
data cache entries.  This would allow a snooping system to be built fairly
efficiently.