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From: noah@Apple.COM (Noah Price)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Mac IIci Cache
Keywords: maciici cache
Message-ID: <36715@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 22 Nov 89 05:53:50 GMT
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In article <2228@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu> lih@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Andrew Lih) writes:
>Could anyone elaborate on how the cache slot for the Mac IIci works?
>Does the type of cache (direct-mapped, associative, set-associative)
>depend on the certain type of card that is placed in the slot or is
>the cache fixed into a certain type of organization?

The cache connector supplies the signals needed to implement a cache.  The
cache card that is plugged in determines what type of cache and what size
cache.  For example, Daystar has a cache which is direct-mapped and 64 Kbytes
in size, but neither of these specs was dictated by the cache connector.

noah

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