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From: aperez@cvbnet.UUCP (Arturo Perez x6739)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: RISC multiprocessors
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Date: 9 Nov 89 16:58:42 GMT
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From article <30969@winchester.mips.COM>, by mash@mips.COM (John Mashey):
> In article <516@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk> jim@cs.strath.ac.uk writes:
> .......
> This is all true, but just to make sure there is no ambiguity,
> and to head off a potential argument:
> 	1) FAST processors require faster busses, or else getting away
> 	from busses in the direction of mainframe-style architectures.

Mainframes don't have busses?  

What do they use instead?

Or do you mean that they don't have mini- or micro- style busses?  That I can
understand but I would still like to know what they use; I've only
ever worked on minis and workstations.


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