William Donzelli <aw288(a)osfn.org> wrote:
Cache has been around for quite some time - the
"first" implementation
was in either a late model S/360 or early S/370 (I can't remember, but
around 1970 anyway). Originally it was to be called the "muffer" - memory
buffer. Look in *IBMs 360 and Early 370 Systems* from MIT press (you have
a copy, RIGHT?).
p. 466: "First announced on the System/360 Model 85 in January 1968,
the high-speed storage unit coupled with the main memory soon became
known as a cache, a concept now recognized as one of the more
important contributions to computer memory design."
-Frank McConnell