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Figure: Bus
- Bandwidth
- Contention - blocking, queuing
- Broadcast capability?
- Arbitration/deadlock?
- Ease of expansion
Examples:
- PCI, MBus, SBus, IEEE ``FutureBus''
- Multiprocessor PCs, Sunsite, SGI...
- Ethernet
Figure: Ring
- Bandwidth? Contention? Broadcast? Ease of
expansion?
Examples:
- SCI (IEEE Scalable coherent interconnect)
- Convex Exemplar, Kendall Square KSR-1
- IBM Token Ring (local-area network)
Paul H J Kelly
Mon Nov 17 01:24:12 GMT 1997