Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 02:50:46 -0500 From: Tony Overfield <tony@dell.com> To: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>, Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pentium II? Message-ID: <3.0.2.32.19970802025046.006c51f8@bugs.us.dell.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.970730111752.19831C-100000@cynic.portal.ca> References: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970730090211.1338D-100000@misery.sdf.com>
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At 11:24 AM 7/30/97 -0700, Curt Sampson wrote: >On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Tom Samplonius wrote: >> PII/266 chips are cheaper than than Pro/200 w/512k cache, and faster. >> Besides the chipset is the same! > >Yes, but much cheaper 256K cache PPro200s are also available. Is >512K of slow cache better than 256K of fast cache for your application? Most likely, yes. In addition to that, which would you rather have: 8+8 KB L1 cache at 200MHz or 16+16 KB L1 cache at 266MHz? - Tony
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