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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: NeXT software size
Message-ID: <1991May11.204458.5903@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 11 May 91 20:44:58 GMT
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greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) writes:


>Why on Earth would NeXT use such slow memory?  I'm literally shocked...

  They're hoping the 040 4K caches will soak up most of the accesses.
This is just a design tradeoff, which probably hits NeXT 040 for about
10-15% performance vs. say a 128K cache of SRAM.

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