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From: Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] pcie for inter machine comms
Date: Wed,  6 Jul 2011 11:46:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2fffde1cce36a8f7f6f7c892b7c19c51@hamnavoe.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4129bd2e772e6f2068f8cd02d61c28a3@quintile.net>

> I seem to remember IBM did somthing like this with back-to-back DMAs in
> RS6000 in the early 1990s

...  and before that (1970s) you could join 360 and 370 mainframes
into what we would nowadays call a "cluster" by splicing I/O channels
together with a CTC (channel-to-channel adapter).

That doesn't answer your question about PCIe though.




  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-06 10:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-06  9:06 Steve Simon
2011-07-06 10:46 ` Richard Miller [this message]
2011-07-06 17:11 ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-06 17:18   ` ron minnich
2011-07-06 19:08     ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-07-06 20:20       ` ron minnich
     [not found]       ` <CAP6exYLfHOROhZsA-D2+wrMPVwyp7rwwAtvHEf9hJadM+nF7hA@mail.gmail.c>
2011-07-07 16:41         ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-08  9:34           ` Richard Miller
2011-07-06 20:57     ` Charles Forsyth
2011-07-06 17:30 ` Jack

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