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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 1997
Filed:
Jun. 07, 1995
Steven G Roskowski, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Dean M Drako, Cupertino, CA (US);
William T Krein, San Jose, CA (US);
Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Apparatus for allowing a component of a computer system to which data is to be written to control the order of transfer of that data including circuitry for providing a numbered signal signifying that a particular component has a set of data which is to be transferred to the destination component, circuitry associated with the destination component for choosing among all of the numbered signals to select from all sets of data a next set of data in a particular numerical order, and circuitry associated with the destination component for selecting other than the next set of data in the particular numerical order.