IBM 150 Manual De Usuario

Hardware Overview 

  • In a high performance platform, with multiple processors and multiple 

memories, a switch may be employed to allow multiple parallel accesses 
by the processors to memory. The path through the switches would be 
decided by the addressing of memory.

 

 

Primary Processor Bus/Switch

System Memory

Host Bridge

Secondary Bus (PCI)

PowerPC Processor

(L1/L2 Cache)

PowerPC Processor

(L1/L2 Cache)

Tertiary Bus (ISA or PCI)

I/O Device

I/O Device

I/O Device

I/O Device

Bus

Bridge