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From: cquenel@pyramid.pyramid.com (Christopher Quenelle)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Cache Terminology?
Message-ID: <17991@pyramid.pyramid.com>
Date: 31 Mar 88 02:19:50 GMT
References: <3298@sequent.UUCP> <47555@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: cquenel@pyramid.UUCP (Christopher Quenelle)
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA
Lines: 24
Keywords: cache, set

Disclaimer first : I KNOW NOTHING!    :-)

In article <47555@sun.uucp> petolino@sun.UUCP (Joe Petolino) writes:
>thing they are referring to (the 'memory bank') is a very basic and useful
				   ^^^^^^^^^^^
>concept for hardware designers to talk about, and there isn't any other good
>name for it.  I usually call this thing an 'associativity', but that's too
>cumbersome (seven syllables!).  Any other suggestions?
>
>-Joe

	Sheesh, man, call it a MEMORY BANK.
	The reason people don't is 'cuz they sound like
	they're in a grade B sci-fi movie. :-)
	but that's what it sounds like to me.

	actually it sounds like "cache bank" might be better.


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