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To: Petz who wrote (2827)12/10/1997 1:41:00 AM
From: Brian Hutcheson  Read Replies (2) of 6843
 
Petz , re. second reason for slot 1
It was to remove the L2 cache from the chip since it was too costly for mainstream PCs and they were having yield problems .While placing commodity Sram on the card would give a compromise solution that would be cheaper but still faster than on the board . Another supposed reason was for upgradeability , pay me now or pay me later (grin)
regards , Brian
PS but you knew all that anyway
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