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From: gd@geovision.uucp (Gord Deinstadt)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: One aspect of bandwidth (backplane bus)
Summary: Bandwidth problem solved
Keywords: Backplane
Message-ID: <607@geovision.UUCP>
Date: 17 Apr 89 15:27:54 GMT
References: <407@bnr-fos.UUCP[ <17500@obiwan.mips.COM[
Reply-To: gd@geovision.UUCP (Gord Deinstadt)
Organization: GeoVision Corp, Ottawa, Canada
Lines: 14

In article <17500@obiwan.mips.COM> mark@mips.COM (Mark G. Johnson) writes:

 Seems to me that backplanes (or, in general terms, processor-to-
 main-storage data trunks) are nearly pooped out.  At least for the
 kinds of air cooled, medium-priced computers that tend to have
 microprocessors for CPUs.
 [gives examples]
                                 ...*Those* kinds of machines
 will, um, provide a challenge for the processor-to-memory
 data transfer engineers.

Fiber optics.
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Gord Deinstadt           gd@geovision.uucp