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From: fotland@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Dave Fotland)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Cache Terminology?
Message-ID: <6310008@hpcupt1.HP.COM>
Date: 1 Apr 88 22:58:19 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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I use "way" as the name for a cache memory bank.
Thus a two way set associative cache has two blocks
in each set and two ways of associativity, or just
two ways for short.

-David Fotland