Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!dcl-cs!aber-cs!athene!pcg From: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: The Future of Buses (and Futurebus) Message-ID: Date: 11 Dec 90 15:51:42 GMT References: <36734@cup.portal.com> <1990Dec10.185346.4114@zoo.toronto.edu> Sender: aro@aber-cs.UUCP Organization: Coleg Prifysgol Cymru Lines: 27 Nntp-Posting-Host: csteacht In-reply-to: henry@zoo.toronto.edu's message of 10 Dec 90 18:53:46 GMT On 10 Dec 90 18:53:46 GMT, henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) said: In article <1990Dec10.185346.4114@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: henry> In article henry> aglew@crhc.uiuc.edu (Andy Glew) writes: aglew> ... The processor to memory connection is too important to be aglew> left a standard bus, especially a standard bus that is as aglew> featureful as FUTUREbus. henry> This last deserves further attention, I think. My belief is that henry> buses have hit about the point that processor architectures were henry> at a decade or so ago: drowning in their own useless complexity. henry> FUTUREbus is the Intel 432 of buses. I eagerly await the RISC henry> revolution. Hasn't it already happened and nobody noticed? But NUbus has so far not been incredibly popular, which is a real pity. Apple more or less killed it by adopting it in a nonstandard version (strange form factor mostly). Just look at the sort of very alluring systems TI managed to build around it as a proof of what can be otherwise done. -- Piercarlo Grandi | ARPA: pcg%uk.ac.aber.cs@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Dept of CS, UCW Aberystwyth | UUCP: ...!mcsun!ukc!aber-cs!pcg Penglais, Aberystwyth SY23 3BZ, UK | INET: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk