Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 19:30:54 BST From: Michael Searle <searle@longacre.demon.co.uk> To: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: 430TX Message-ID: <m7944BAA9@longacre.demon.co.uk> References: <199704111647.JAA00625@freefall.freebsd.org>
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owner-hackers-digest@freefall.freebsd.org wrote: > 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? I thought the Pentium Pro did that as well though. -- Michael Searle - csubl@csv.warwick.ac.uk
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