From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 13 09:04:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA11718 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 09:04:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA11307 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 08:59:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id SAA15415; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 18:57:37 +0300 (EEST) Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 18:57:31 +0300 (EEST) From: Narvi To: Terry Lambert cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 430TX ? In-Reply-To: <199704121845.LAA15464@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk { Sorr, but I don't like CC: lists *that* long, so I shortened it - hope all are subscribed to -hackers. } On Sat, 12 Apr 1997, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > Right. If you look at the Mips, Alpha, PowerPC, Sparc, etc.. They all > > > have 1-2Meg caches on the higher end systems. > > > > ...1-2M is a small cache, IMO. We have an Alpha with a 4M cache, and are > > getting some with 16M cache.. > > The real pain is that no one seems to be doing anything about getting > SRAM density up... the only benefit DRAM has over SRAM is its density... > everything else favors SRAM. > > 4MB SRAM simms (12 ns) are available now. But where shall you plug them into? I really doubt any present PC/PowerPC/Alpha chipset is capable of making use of SRAM. Though it would make wonders to applicatiions hindered by present memory throughput Sander > Regards, > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. >