The performance of a business computer at everyday tasks largely depends on two factors: its processor speed and the amount of memory it has. The processor's speed comes from its clock, a timing ...

In the eighties, computer processors became faster and faster, while memory access times stagnated and hindered additional performance increases. Something had to be done to speed up memory access and ...

Microprocessors, MAPs and Common Memory nodes can all be connected to Hi-Bar in any configuration as shown in Figure 4. Each input or output port sustains a yielded data payload of 1.4GB/sec for an ...

In 1977, John Backus wrote a seminal paper titled, Can Programming Be Liberated From the von Neumann Style? In this paper, Backus defined the implications of what we refer to today as the “memory ...