Method and apparatus for performing deferred transactions

Details Method and apparatus for performing deferred transactions Method and apparatus for performing deferred transactions

1994-09-08

1997-03-25

Lane, Jack A.

395292, 395859, G06F 1342

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ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus of performing bus transactions on the 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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