Network of Worstations

• Network interface is on I/O Bus

• Standards (e.g., PCI) => longer life, faster to market

• Slow ~microseconds to access network interface

I/O Bus

Processor

Cache

Main

Memory

Disk

Controller

Disk

Disk

Graphics

Controller

Network

Interface

Graphics

Network

interrupts

Core Chip Set

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