Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 15:24:22 -0700 (PDT) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com> To: David Langford <langfod@dihelix.com> Cc: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, steve@visint.co.uk, louie@TransSys.COM, michaelh@cet.co.jp, avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au, terry@lambert.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 430TX ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970411152235.27533A-100000@harlie.bfd.com> In-Reply-To: <199704112024.KAA00588@caliban.dihelix.com>
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> (That and why mohterboard makers dont put caches on Pentium Pro motherboards > to interface the slow main memory and the faster on chip cache.) Can't imagine that a L3 cache would be much use unless it's SEVERAL Meg in size. Since the PPro has at least a 256K L2 cache, the L3 cache would hurt unless it's quite a bit larger than this.
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