Method and apparatus for performing bus transactions in a comput

Details Method and apparatus for performing bus transactions in a comput Method and apparatus for performing bus transactions in a comput

1996-09-17

1999-05-11

Lane, Jack A.

395292, G06F3/00

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ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus of performing bus transactions on the external bus of the computer system. The present invention includes a method and apparatus for permitting out-of-order replies in a pipelined bus system. The out-of-order responses include the sending of tokens between both the requesting agents and the responding agents in the computer system without the use of dedicated token buses.

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