Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!brtph3!brchh104!brchs1!bnr.ca!rice.edu!sun-spots-request
From: auspex!guy@uunet.uu.net (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: Sparcstations: A Guide for Compiler Writers
Keywords: Hardware
Message-ID: <2443@brchh104.bnr.ca>
Date: 17 Apr 91 01:00:00 GMT
Sender: news@brchh104.bnr.ca
Organization: Sun-Spots
Lines: 8
Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu
X-Original-Date: 8 Apr 91 17:44:52 GMT
X-Refs:  Original: v10n72, Replies: v10n75
X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 80, message 1
X-Note: Submissions: sun-spots@rice.edu, Admin: sun-spots-request@rice.edu

>Are these two statements inconsistent (16K x 16 =  256K)?

No.

"Cypress' 16K x 16 Cache Storage Unit" has 16K 16-bit *(half-)words*.
(From the Cypress *SPARC RISC User's Guide*: "The CY7C157 is a
high-performance CMOS static RAM organized as 16K x 16 bits.")  Glue 2 of
'em together, and you have 16K 32-bit words, or 64K 8-bit bytes.