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- From: pries@mti.sgi.com (Paul Ries)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: Harvard Architecture
- Message-ID: <pries.728012209@meter>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 01:36:49 GMT
- References: <1k1ljgINNf76@gorn.hal.com>
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- savel@hal.COM (Bharat Baliga-Savel) writes:
-
- >hmmm! i was under the impression that it was specifically a separate
- >Instruction Cache and Data Cache.
- >--
-
- I think a lot of people use it that way now, but the term predated the
- use of caches. For example, when I was back at Intel many of the
- microcontrollers had a EPROM instruction store and a data RAM array...
- neither memory could be used for another purpose. This was called a
- Harvard architecture at the time (though I'm sure by that time caches
- existed).
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