Accessing beyond memory address range of commodity operating system using enhanced operating system adjunct processor interfaced to appear as RAM disk
US6418505B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Dec 17, 1998 |
| Grant date | Jul 9, 2002 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 17, 2018 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F12/0623
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
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.
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