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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Cache performance on 386 boards running Unix
Message-ID: <1492@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 26 Oct 89 15:26:39 GMT
References: <919@umigw.MIAMI.EDU> <416@ssp2.idca.tds.philips.nl> <6101@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center
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In article <6101@portia.Stanford.EDU>, dhinds@portia.Stanford.EDU (David Hinds) writes:
|            In fact, 64K is quite large as caches go; the 80486 chip has
|  a cache of something like 256 bytes, but I wouldn't be surprised if
|  this had hit rates of 80-90%, even with very large programs.

  The 80486 that Intel sells has 8k.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon