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- Fall 95/Winter 96: There has been a
- spate of fake L2 cache chips appearing
- on certain 486 mother-boards, most
- notably, mb's with the UMC chipset.
-
- Any mb with engraved cache chips saying
- "Write-Back" on them are fake, as there's
- no such thing as a Write-Back chip. (Just
- like you can't buy "Write Back" DRAM - it's
- the software or hardwiring that controls
- whether cache is write back or write thru.
-
- CACHECHK will do memory accesses to check
- out the L1 and L2 cache, tell you the speeds
- and sizes of each, and check to see if all
- of your memory is cached, or if some is
- non-cached.
- POSTCARD-WARE, not shareware or freeware
-
- CACHECTL allows you to turn the L1 cache
- on or off, and tell you if it's enabled
- or disabled.
-