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- From: mash@mips.com (John Mashey)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: CISC Microcode (was Re: RISC Mainframe)
- Date: 24 Jul 1992 22:49:15 GMT
- Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Inc.
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- Message-ID: <l7127bINN6s5@spim.mips.com>
- References: <13v85hINN2og@rodan.UU.NET> <GLEW.92Jul23183353@pdx007.intel.com> <nmcad0g@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com>
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- In article <nmcad0g@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com> vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver) writes:
- >> . How about other worlds? Which is more common,
- >> cache coherent or cache incoherent I/O? I believe John Mashey already
- >> noted that on the R3000 I/O was non-coherent, but on the R4000 I/O is
- >> coherent.
-
- >Without intending to contradict John, since I don't recall what he
- >wrote, please note that not all currently shipping R4000 systems have
- >coherent I/O.
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- I don't remember saying exactly this.
- 1) R3000 systems can be built with or without coherent I/O.
- 2) R4000 systems can be built with or without coherent I/O.
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- 3) People have usually tended to build uniprocessors without coherent
- I/O, for simplicity & lower cost, and multicprocessors at least
- sometimes with coherent I/O, to avoid complex cache flushing.
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