[G4] {G4 the System Bus}

Cameron Kaiser spectre at stockholm.ptloma.edu
Thu Feb 20 20:00:43 PST 2003


> How can this be it does not make sense? How does all of this power get 
> managed by this seemingly underpowered bus?

Because the hope is that the system bus doesn't have to get used (much)
by the processors, but that most of the data it will be working with will
be in its caches, which run at much faster rates.

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