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From: andrew@alice.UUCP (Andrew Hume)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Bus Partitioning?
Summary: he's not kidding
Keywords: Bus Partitioning
Message-ID: <10421@alice.UUCP>
Date: 1 Feb 90 06:55:58 GMT
References: <1990Jan30.174807.14657@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> <2073@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <19597@bellcore.bellcore.com>
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 o'dell is not kidding.
some parts of the long distance network use a crossbar switch to
switch fast (T3(=45Mbps) i think) lines. the biggest are approx
1Kx1K but there are only 2 or 3 of these: they are expensive.