From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 12 12:08:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA16352 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 12 Apr 1997 12:08:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA16336 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 1997 12:08:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA15464; Sat, 12 Apr 1997 11:45:20 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199704121845.LAA15464@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: 430TX ? To: thorpej@nas.nasa.gov Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 11:45:20 -0700 (MST) Cc: langfod@dihelix.com, ejs@bfd.com, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, steve@visint.co.uk, louie@transsys.com, michaelh@cet.co.jp, avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au, terry@lambert.org, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199704120130.SAA21709@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> from "Jason Thorpe" at Apr 11, 97 06:29:56 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Right. If you look at the Mips, Alpha, PowerPC, Sparc, etc.. They all > > have 1-2Meg caches on the higher end systems. > > ...1-2M is a small cache, IMO. We have an Alpha with a 4M cache, and are > getting some with 16M cache.. The real pain is that no one seems to be doing anything about getting SRAM density up... the only benefit DRAM has over SRAM is its density... everything else favors SRAM. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.