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Date:      Fri, 11 Apr 1997 16:26:31 -0700
From:      Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
To:        Michael Searle <searle@longacre.demon.co.uk>
Cc:        hackers@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 430TX 
Message-ID:  <199704112326.QAA06467@rah.star-gate.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 11 Apr 1997 19:30:54 -0000." <m7944BAA9@longacre.demon.co.uk> 

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>From The Desk Of Michael Searle :
> 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.
> 

Yeap, which is why I mentioned that companies are looking into faster memories
besides the obvious ways of increasing bandwith --- wider memory, 
memory interleaving, etc...

	Cheers,
	Amancio






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