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> > With the slight exception of PPro processors where both L1 and L2 caches
> > reside in the same package, albeit on two separate pieces of sillicon...
> 
> What a neat idea.  Then if you want a larger L2, I can make you
> buy a whole new processor.

Playing Devil's advocate, how many times in recent years (since the 486
at least) have you upgraded your cache and not touched the processor.

It doesn't happen.



Nate