Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!mcvax!enea!diab!pf From: pf@diab.UUCP (Per Fogelstrom) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Was the 360 badly-designed? (was Re: Compatibility with EBCDIC) Message-ID: <300@ma.diab.UUCP> Date: Mon, 31-Aug-87 03:28:31 EDT Article-I.D.: ma.300 Posted: Mon Aug 31 03:28:31 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 16:36:43 EDT References: <1486@cullvax.UUCP> <114@spook.UUCP> <18102@amdcad.AMD.COM> Reply-To: pf@ma.UUCP (Per Fogelstrom) Organization: Diab Data AB, Taby, Sweden Lines: 8 In article <18102@amdcad.AMD.COM> tim@amdcad.UUCP (Tim Olson) writes: >The Am29000 has Master/Slave mode operation, where two processors >operate in lock-step. The Slave processor checks all of the master's >outputs against the slave's internal values cycle by cycle, and signals >an error (MSERR) if there is a discrepency in any value. > Question: What effect has this function on performence ?