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Re: 560 performance



At 08:23 AM 8/28/96 -0500, James Gramling wrote:
>Correct me if I am wrong, but the 560 does not have an L2 cache, which
>probably is the culprit in its poor performance relative to other machines
>in its class.  
>
>Jim Gramling

        You're correct.  No Level 2 cache.  Certainly seems to make a
difference.

        Why is it, I wonder, that caches are skimped on so regularly in
Notebooks?  My 701 has a 16 KB cache.  Even a *small* cache is better than none!

        (I realize the Pentium has an on-chip cache.)

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