From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Aug 30 17:49:01 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id RAA10512 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 17:49:01 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA10505 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 17:48:47 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA10127; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 17:47:16 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199508310047.RAA10127@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Upgrade to my machine To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 17:47:16 -0700 (PDT) Cc: marino.ladavac@aut.alcatel.at, hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199508302355.JAA29910@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Aug 31, 95 09:25:14 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 541 Sender: hardware-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk ... > Have a look at a die photo of one of those puppies, Rod. The cache > occupies a _very_ substantial amount of real estate. (This is why > on-chip caches are so small) Sorry, your right. I think I've been staring at CPU chips with no cache on them for too long again... time to pull out the wall size 486 poster and tape it to my forehead while I put on the conical hat <:-). -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD