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- From: francis@ac.dal.ca
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: SRAM cache vs cache
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.130843.10124@ac.dal.ca>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 13:08:43 -0400
- References: <palane.726703117@pv7426.vincent.iastate.edu>
- Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- > When examining the cache, I noted that the Tri-Star has a 256K cache,
- > while the Gateway uses a 64K SRAM cache. When I started looking at
- > other vendors, I noticed that many had a cache of a given size while
- > others used an SRAM cache.
- >
- > So, here's the question. Is there any differene between a cache using SRAM
- > or one which doesn't (assuming identical size and design otherwise)?
- >
- > Paul Lane
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- *ALL* cache memory subsystems on the motherboard are SRAM, whether it be 64kb
- of cache or 256kb of cache...cache RAM is generally understood to be SRAM,
- because DRAM *can't* be used for caching, for obvious reasons, otherwise we
- woudn't need the faster SRAM for caching in the first place. :-)
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- Francis
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