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From: kinners@csvax.cs.ukans.edu (Nancy Kinnersley )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A3000 CPU cache (was: Query - 68040 slot in A3000)
Summary: Why bother?
Message-ID: <1990Nov26.003100.7998@csvax.cs.ukans.edu>
Date: 26 Nov 90 00:31:00 GMT
References: <6210@harrier.ukc.ac.uk> <611@DIALix.oz.au>
Organization: KU Computer Science Dept
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In article <611@DIALix.oz.au> bernie@DIALix.oz.au (Bernd Felsche) writes:

: Instead of an `040, how about somebody building a cache-board?

How much speed-up do you suppose a cache would give you, maybe 30 percent?
I doubt if it could be made cheap enough to make it worthwhile.
I'm waiting for a 68040!

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Nancy Kinnersley
  kinners@csvax.cs.ukans.edu