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> (That and why mohterboard makers dont put caches on Pentium Pro motherboards
>  to interface the slow main memory and the faster on chip cache.)

Can't imagine that a L3 cache would be much use unless it's SEVERAL Meg
in size.  Since the PPro has at least a 256K L2 cache, the L3 cache would
hurt unless it's quite a bit larger than this.