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From: elind@ircam.ircam.fr (Eric Lindemann)
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Subject: i860 Multiprocessing
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Date: 17 Mar 89 09:57:54 GMT
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In <21876@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> brooks@vette.llnl.gov (Eugene Brooks) writes:
>A good estimate of the external cache size desired is the total main memory
>divided by the number of processors you plan to configure. 

So if I wanted to have 4 processors with 16 Mbyte of main memory this would
imply a 4 Mbyte cache? That's a pretty big  cache don't you think?