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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 17, 1998
Richard R. Barton, Lexington, SC (US);
Peter Washington, Little Mountain, SC (US);
John H. Waters, Columbia, SC (US);
NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH (US);
Abstract
A multi-processor computer system that includes at least one “regular” processor and one “enhanced mode” processor. The enhanced mode processor is preferably not turned over to the regular processor, but is initialized to look like an internal or external device, such as a disk drive or the like. In a preferred embodiment, fast access memory that is outside the addressable range of the regular processor is coupled to the enhanced mode processor and accessed through a RAM-disk device driver. In this manner, the amount of fast access memory available to the regular processor is increased.