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Jon, you're simply wrong. The original Pentium and Pentium Pro have 8K
L1 dcache; the Pentium MMX and Pentium II/III have 16K L1 dcache. See
http://cr.yp.to/hardware/x86.html for pointers to more information.

---D. J. Bernstein, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics,
Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago