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   Waldek Hebisch to Thomas Koenig   
   Re: VAX   
   05 Aug 25 14:13:39   
   
   From: antispam@fricas.org   
      
   Thomas Koenig  wrote:   
   > Waldek Hebisch  schrieb:   
   >> I am not sure what technolgy they used   
   >> for register file.  For me most likely is fast RAM, but that   
   >> normally would give 1 R/W port.   
   >   
   > They used fast SRAM and had three copies of their registers,   
   > for 2R1W.   
      
   Hmm, normal RAM can not do read during write and AFAICS one needs to   
   do writes to all copies.  So this seems to require doubling clock to   
   put 2 RAM cycles into one CPU cycle.  Or do you mean 2 reads or   
   1 write per cycle?   
      
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