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In article <1992Dec11.231814.13317@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com> simonich@croatia.eng.hou.compaq.com (Chris Simonich) writes:
>*   We're tired of beating our heads against the wall      *
>*   trying to expand the performance of I/O buses. Let's   *
>*   face it, wide-buses are just not a long term cost      *
>*   effective solution for high performance computer       *
>*   solutions.  So here is an alternative...               *
 [...]
>                        CPU
>                         |
>                         |---memory
>                       MIOC
>                       /  \
>                     IOC  dev3
>                     / \
>                 dev1  dev2
 [...]
>*  So, what do you think?  We are interested in making     *
>*  this proposal an open Industry Standard.  As such, you  *
>*  may request further information, give us your comments, *
>*  or ask questions.                                       *

Since no one else has pointed this out:

You may want to ask some of the mainframe type people. Some
of them have a couple of decades of experience in this kind
of design.

Also, it is not clear how this would be "inexpensive" or be
compatible to existing PC software (I am assuming that you
want to run existing PC software).

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