Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!amdahl!nsc!pauls From: pauls@nsc.nsc.com (Paul Sweazey) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Futurebus status Message-ID: <5010@nsc.nsc.com> Date: 11 Mar 88 20:30:47 GMT References: <2497@orca.TEK.COM> Reply-To: pauls@nsc.UUCP (Paul Sweazey) Organization: National Semiconductor, Sunnyvale Lines: 21 Keywords: IEEE 896 Futurebus The meeting that John Theus announced on Monday is a joint meeting of the CSR and Event Management Task Group and the Bus Repeaters and Message Passing Task Group. An overall meeting of the P896.2 Working Group (to which these task groups and others report) will occur two days later. Futurebus Working Group Meeting Host and Chairman: Dr. Paul Borrill (408-721-7443) Time: 8:30am-4:30pm, Wednesday, March 16, 1988 Place: National Semiconductor Bldg 16, Kifer Rd, Santa Clara, CA Left at 2nd light west of Lawrence Expressway Don't be too intimidated by the 8:30am hour. We EXPECT people to dribble in for an hour or so. Besides the proposed width and protocol extensions, the Task Group on Cache Coherence will hand over the caching specification to the Working Group. These meetings are open to the public, and IEEE membership is not required to participate. Paul Sweazey