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To: Bilow who wrote (108823)	5/1/2000 1:44:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1572208

Carl, what you described isn't as easy as you think for Intel's buses. Double-pumping and quad-pumping only works on information that is sent in bursts or packets. Many signals on Intel's buses, such as arbitration, cache snoop, etc., cannot be packetized, so they run off the main clock instead. This isn't a problem for point-to-point interfaces like AMD's EV6, since I'd imagine everything is sent in packets anyway. Then the main clock is used merely as a packet boundary marker. Tenchusatsu