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Article #12350Re: Harvard Architecture
From: Mike Smith
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:42
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:42
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In article <1k1ljgINNf76@gorn.hal.com>, savel@hal.COM (Bharat Baliga-Savel) writes: |> hmmm! i was under the impression that it was specifically a separate |> Instruction Cache and Data Cache. That is how the term Harvard architecture is used today, but as Hennessy and Patterson discuss in Section 1.8 of their book CA:AQA, the term originated as a description for the Mark series of machines built at Harvard by Howard Aiken. These machines had "separate memories for instructions and data, ... [and they] were regarded as reactionary by the advocates of stored-program computers." (p. 25) For more info, you may want to look up some of H&P's references, or look through the IEEE Annals of the History of Computers. Mike Smith smith@das.harvard.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ogicse!das-news.harvard.edu!das!smith From: smith@das.harvard.edu (Mike Smith) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Harvard Architecture Message-ID: <1993Jan26.144251.14989@das.harvard.edu> Date: 26 Jan 93 14:42:51 GMT Article-I.D.: das.1993Jan26.144251.14989 References: <1k1ljgINNf76@gorn.hal.com> Sender: usenet@das.harvard.edu (Network News) Reply-To: smith@das.Harvard.EDU Organization: Harvard University Lines: 16