From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 11 13:08:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA16902 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 11 Apr 1997 13:08:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-11.mail.demon.net (relay-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.137]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA16892 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 1997 13:08:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from longacre.demon.co.uk ([158.152.156.24]) by relay-11.mail.demon.net id aa1104940; 11 Apr 97 19:33 BST From: Michael Searle Message-ID: To: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: 430TX References: <199704111647.JAA00625@freefall.freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 19:30:54 BST X-Mailer: Offlite 0.09 / Termite Internet for Acorn RISC OS Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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