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From: Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com>
Date: Wed,  6 Jul 2011 11:46:05 +0100
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Subject: Re: [9fans] pcie for inter machine comms
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> 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.