On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 14:25:36 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: >In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 12/31/2007 > at 02:13 PM, Tom Marchant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >>When processors srarted to include High-Speed Buffers, now commonly >>called cache, > >I don't recall seeing "high speed buffer" in print until long after >"cache" was common.
I don't recall seeing "cache" until relatively recently. Amdahl used High-Speed Buffer (or HSB) exclusively. The 360/85 announcement called it a high speed buffer. So did the announcements for the 165, 3033, 3081 and others. See http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/IBM-ProdAnn/index.html -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
