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Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 02:50:46 -0500
To: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>, Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
From: Tony Overfield <tony@dell.com>
Subject: Re: Pentium II?
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At 11:24 AM 7/30/97 -0700, Curt Sampson wrote:
>On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Tom Samplonius wrote:
>>   PII/266 chips are cheaper than than Pro/200 w/512k cache, and faster.
>> Besides the chipset is the same!
>
>Yes, but much cheaper 256K cache PPro200s are also available. Is
>512K of slow cache better than 256K of fast cache for your application?

Most likely, yes.  In addition to that, which would you rather have:
  8+8 KB L1 cache at 200MHz
 or
  16+16 KB L1 cache at 266MHz?

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Tony