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From: bcase@apple.UUCP (Brian Case)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Sort Co-Processors
Message-ID: <6447@apple.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Oct-87 13:05:58 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  9 13:05:58 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

Advanced Micro Devices makes a chip called the CADM (Content Addressable
Data Manager or something; we used to call it the Sort Buffer internally).
Basically, it is a chip with a CAM and an 8-bit processor; it reportedly
sorts really fast; it only sorts what's on the chip; it can be cascaded
up to 256 times (total of 256 chips in parallel).