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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 00:20:26 -0500
- From: Faisal Nameer Jawdat <fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: Crippled IIvx ?? Not really.
- In-Reply-To: <1992Dec14.153628.19581@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk>
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- ucess2j@ucl.ac.uk (Dr Jaroslav Stark) writes:
- > True, but on a IIvx the 32k external cache presumably runs at the 'doubled'
- > speed i.e. 32MHz, whilst on the 'clock-doubled' 486 systems that I was
- > referring to I beleive that the external cache runs at the bus speed.
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- True, but the internal cache on the 486 is what most of the speed
- advantage comes from in this case, and the internal cache is running
- at the doubled speed, and accessing faster than an external at the
- same speed anyway.
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- -- faisal jawdat | "Certainly the game is rigged.
- email: fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu | Don't let that stop you;
- if mail handler barfs | if you don't bet, you can't win."
- fj05@andrew.cmu.edu | -Lazarus Long
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