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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks,de.comp.os.unix,de.comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Intel Zappa board vs. Asus P55...
Date: 11 Aug 1995 04:18:07 GMT
Organization: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
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Message-ID: <40ellv$san@gate.sinica.edu.tw>
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In article <40d3ov$l6t@zv.zv.fhg.de>, Peter Kuehn <kuehn@zv.fhg.de> wrote:
>
>|> You also might not like the performance much. Triton only caches the
>|> lower 64MB of memory; anything that happens to land in the upper 64MB
>|> runs just like it would on a machine with no external cache at all.
>
>hopefully you are speaking of 256KB external cache? With the 512 KB you
>should reach the other 64MB ???!!!
No, as I understand it, the Triton chipset cannot cache anything
beyond 64 megabytes of RAM. I don't believe it has to do with the
amount of cache installed (256K, 512K or 1 meg). What someone needs
to come up with is a Pentium/P6 board that can take at least a 150-MHz
CPU, accomodate up to 4 megabytes of L2, 8 memory slots (SIMM, DIMM,
EDO, holocube, whatever) for at least 512 megs of RAM, a chipset that
can cache all of that, and 6 PCI slots (and maybe one ISA slot). Then
I could jam in 3 PCI disk controllers, 2 100-Mbps NIC's, a Mach64 or
#9 PCI graphics card, and a sound card in the ISA slot. Oh, twin
16550 serial ports and a parallel port should already be on the
motherboard. :) Could anyone with such a product please contact me
at taob@io.org. :)
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org