On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Scott Dier wrote: > * Ben Kochie <ben at nerp.net> [000719 08:08]: > > intel's off the shelf stuff. they use something called "crossbar > > switch" which allows DRAM requests to be interlaced to multiple dimm's at > > a time.. which is really cool. > > Read: Neat name for something that many high-end hardware machines do. > SEE: Many high-end non-x86 sgi machines for instance. Not entirely. The crossbar switch was something developed by DEC, and I'm pretty sure that Compaq just inherited it in the purchase. But I don't doubt that the same performance is achieved elsewhere, whether by the same means or not. -- Lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org