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Date:      Fri, 11 Apr 1997 19:30:54 BST
From:      Michael Searle <searle@longacre.demon.co.uk>
To:        hackers@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 430TX
Message-ID:  <m7944BAA9@longacre.demon.co.uk>
References:  <199704111647.JAA00625@freefall.freebsd.org>

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owner-hackers-digest@freefall.freebsd.org wrote:

> Hi; funny u should mention this, we were just talking about this in my
> RTOS class today....

> On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Michael Hancock wrote:

>>>>> Is the 430TX chipset recognised/supported yet ?

>>>> Is this a PCI chipset?

>>> Yes, the "latest" from Intel (advertised as faster than HX and VX).

>> While we're talking about Intel, they claim that they're focusing more
>> on memory bandwidth these days and the Pentium II has some kind of dual
>> bus architecture that makes a significant performance difference.

> my instructor claims they separated the cache into instruction cache and
> data-cache.....a previously 'discredited' architecture known to the
> ancients as 'harvard architecture ( howard aiken )' as opposed to the
> traditional 'von neumann' or 'princeton' architecture.... is cache space
> relatively cheap these days?

I thought the Pentium Pro did that as well though.

-- 
Michael Searle - csubl@csv.warwick.ac.uk



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