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- From: schow@bcarh2d8.bnr.ca (Stanley T.H. Chow)
- Subject: Re: Compaq's Proposed Scalable I/O Architecture
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.212901.12236@bcars64a.bnr.ca>
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- References: <1992Dec11.231814.13317@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com>
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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 21:29:01 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec11.231814.13317@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com> simonich@croatia.eng.hou.compaq.com (Chris Simonich) writes:
- >* We're tired of beating our heads against the wall *
- >* trying to expand the performance of I/O buses. Let's *
- >* face it, wide-buses are just not a long term cost *
- >* effective solution for high performance computer *
- >* solutions. So here is an alternative... *
- [...]
- > CPU
- > |
- > |---memory
- > MIOC
- > / \
- > IOC dev3
- > / \
- > dev1 dev2
- [...]
- >* So, what do you think? We are interested in making *
- >* this proposal an open Industry Standard. As such, you *
- >* may request further information, give us your comments, *
- >* or ask questions. *
-
- Since no one else has pointed this out:
-
- You may want to ask some of the mainframe type people. Some
- of them have a couple of decades of experience in this kind
- of design.
-
- Also, it is not clear how this would be "inexpensive" or be
- compatible to existing PC software (I am assuming that you
- want to run existing PC software).
-
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