>A dual core CPUs actually cause themselves a bottleneck if they only have ONE >bus to communicate to/with the outside world. This becomes another design >issue that while producing apparent processor speed has to balance out against >the ability of the bus (or buses) to handle data flow (which gives effective >processor speed)
According to somebody I know from IBM Canada's Lab, all mainframe chips are dual core, but better. They don't only duplicate the core, but all connections to the world outside the chip. Including buses. I guess they learned after AP's in the late 1970's. - Too busy driving to stop for gas! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
