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To: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net>
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Subject: Re: LS-120, Riva 128, ASUS motherboard 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Thu, 08 Jan 1998 21:49:27 -0800
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>I knew there was a reachable limit on current motherboards, and you've
>proven me correct.  The Pentium Pro has a higher limit (1GB?), and the
>Deschuttes (however the hell you spell it) will also have higher
>limits.

   I don't believe the Pentium Pro (P6) has any restriction; it's internal
L2 cache has all the tag bits necessary to cache the entire physical address
space.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project