The Synchronous Backplane Interconnect (SBI) was the internal processor-memory bus used by early

VAX VAX (an acronym for virtual address extension) is a series of computers featuring a 32-bit instruction set architecture (ISA) and virtual memory that was developed and sold by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in the late 20th century. The V ...

computers manufactured by the

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of Maynard, Massachusetts. The bus was implemented using Schottky TTL logic levels and allowed

multiprocessor Multiprocessing (MP) is the use of two or more central processing units (CPUs) within a single computer system. The term also refers to the ability of a system to support more than one processor or the ability to allocate tasks between them. The ...

operation.

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