Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 13:05:17 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: terry@lambert.org, lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [H] Optimal computer for FreeBSD Message-ID: <199702262005.NAA28578@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199702261858.LAA29967@rocky.mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Feb 26, 97 11:58:48 am
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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. When I went from 16M of ram to 32M of RAM on my 486/50, I had to increase the cache as well. I guess the answer is "once" and depends highly on your definition of "recent" going back at least 3 years... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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