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From: lasky@iris.Berkeley.EDU (Ty Lasky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: PC Brand 386 Machines
Keywords: Cache size
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Date: 9 Aug 90 19:39:35 GMT
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I am considering buying either a 33 MHz or 25 MHz 386 system from PC
Brand.  I spoke with a salesman today, and he said that the base systems
come with a 32K cache, but the 33 MHz machine cache cannot be expanded
due to board architecture.  Apparently, the 25 MHz machine can be
expanded to at least 64K.  What I would like to know is, is a 32K cache enough?

Also, comments about PC Brand in general would be helpful.

Finally, on a loosely related topic, would a 386, 25MHz with 387 be
faster than a 386, 33MHz w/o 387?  For background, I do the usual word
processing, spreadsheet, etc, but I also do a great deal of
computationally intensive simulations (robot control, if you must know).
 Thus, I AM interested in which would give faster floating point operations.

Please respond by e-mail, as our site has a short hold time, and I would
probably miss any posts the the group. I will summarize any interesting
results.

Thanks!

Ty A.  Lasky
Robotics Research Lab
University of California, Davis

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