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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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