From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 11 09:47:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA00614 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 11 Apr 1997 09:47:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from becker2.u.washington.edu (spaz@becker2.u.washington.edu [140.142.12.68]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA00602 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 1997 09:47:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (spaz@localhost) by becker2.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW96.12/8.8.4+UW97.03) with SMTP id JAA29122; Fri, 11 Apr 1997 09:46:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 09:46:26 -0700 (PDT) From: John Utz To: Michael Hancock cc: Darren Reed , Terry Lambert , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 430TX ? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi; funny u should mention this, we were just talking about this in my RTOS class today.... On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Michael Hancock wrote: > > > > > > > Is the 430TX chipset recognised/supported yet ? > > > > > > Is this a PCI chipset? > > > > Yes, the "latest" from Intel (advertised as faster than HX and VX). > > While we're talking about Intel, they claim that they're focusing more on > memory bandwidth these days and the Pentium II has some kind of dual bus > architecture that makes a significant performance difference. my instructor claims they separated the cache into instruction cache and data-cache.....a previously 'discredited' architecture known to the ancients as 'harvard architecture ( howard aiken )' as opposed to the traditional 'von neumann' or 'princeton' architecture.... is cache space relatively cheap these days? john ******************************************************************************* John Utz spaz@u.washington.edu idiocy is the impulse function in the convolution of life