Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wa3wbu!john
From: john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Different types of cache on 386's
Message-ID: <673@wa3wbu.UUCP>
Date: 22 Nov 88 01:35:19 GMT
Organization: WA3WBU, Marysville,PA
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      Can anyone tell me breifly what the difference is between "Direct
Mapped Cache" and "Two-way Set Associative Cache" and why one would be
preferred over the other ?  I usually see the first being a 32K and
the second 64K.  Thanks.  This is on a 386 system.


					John


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