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From: philip@amdcad.AMD.COM (Philip Freidin)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Sort Co-Processors
Message-ID: <18623@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: Fri, 9-Oct-87 13:50:10 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  9 13:50:10 1987
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In article <112@sdeggo.UUCP> dave@sdeggo.UUCP (David L. Smith) writes:
>Has anyone out there ever run across a sorting co-processor?  I was doodling
>around the other day and it seemed to me that a lot of computers spend a
>lot of time sorting things out.  An add-on box that you could stuff things
>into and pull them back out of in sorted order would be real handy.
>
>Is there any research being done in this, or does it sound like a useless
>idea?
>
>
>-- 
>David L. Smith
>{sdcsvax!amos,ihnp4!jack!man, hp-sdd!crash, pyramid}!sdeggo!dave
>sdeggo!dave@amos.ucsd.edu 
>"How can you tell when our network president is lying?  His lips move."


AMD builds a standard product called the 95C85. Content addressable
data manager. CADM. it can sort and search, and multiple devices can
be cascaded for larger sort memories. can also be used for tag sorts.

Reasonably fast.


Philip Freidin @ AMD SUNYVALE on {favorite path!amdcad!philip)
Section Manager of Product Planning for Microprogrammable Processors
(you know.... all that 2900 stuff...)
"We Plan Products; not lunches" (a quote from a group that has been standing
				 around for an hour trying to decide where
				 to go for lunch)