Network communications adapter

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A network communications adapter for interconnecting a plurality of digital computing resources for mutual data exchange in which a high performance, large capacity common memory is provided with a pair of external buses which allows multiple processors to store information in and read information from the common memory. The common memory is configured into two banks each bank operating independently and concurrently under control of bus switching logic with separate address control and data, buses. The common memory typically provided 400 megabits per second of bandwidth to the multiple attached thirty-two and sixteen bit processors which may be coupled either to both buses simultaneously …