Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 18:57:31 +0300 (EEST) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 430TX ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970413185032.14446A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <199704121845.LAA15464@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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{ Sorr, but I don't like CC: lists *that* long, so I shortened it - hope all are subscribed to -hackers. } On Sat, 12 Apr 1997, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > 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. > > 4MB SRAM simms (12 ns) are available now. But where shall you plug them into? I really doubt any present PC/PowerPC/Alpha chipset is capable of making use of SRAM. Though it would make wonders to applicatiions hindered by present memory throughput Sander > Regards, > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. >
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