On 2017-11-17 8:55 PM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: > On 11/17/2017 07:34 PM, Jim Brain via cctalk wrote: >> On 11/17/2017 7:25 PM, Paul Koning wrote: >>> >>> One key question is whether it should be asynchronous, as the Unibus >>> is, or synchronous. >> I thought synchronous would make for a smaller/simpler design, but >> could be wrong. >>> A synchronous version of the Unibus would be quite easy; all the >>> ... >> It does not have to be fast. I rather thought, "what is the simplest >> multi-cpu shared bus that could be easily understood by folks and >> allow them to focus on multi-processing education, not bus understanding" >> >> Jim >> >> > You might also take a look at Multibus and VME, if you just want to see > how others did it.
For a nice survey of buses, including those two: "Digital Bus Handbook", Joseph di Giacomo. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=83494 > > Jon >
