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To: Synapsid who wrote (63121)6/24/1999 8:12:00 AM
From: Kevin K. Spurway  Respond to of 1571333
 
Today will finally be the day to buy.

Kevin



To: Synapsid who wrote (63121)6/24/1999 8:49:00 AM
From: Scumbria  Respond to of 1571333
 
Synapsid,

If AMD had designed a K6 with a lean 128Kb cache, wouldn't they have fared much better?

K6 has a 64K L1. Attaching a 128K L2 would be almost worthless. The L2 cache needs to be at least 4X the size of the L1, to be of any value.

Scumbria