Hi Roy! :-)

 RJT> Sure.  Stuff like VT82C586A, VT82C585VP on the two bigger ones,  and 
 RJT> 82C587VP on both of the smaller ones,  in what I'm guessing is the 
 RJT> cache area.
Those are data buffers.

The cache will be some SRAM chips not made by VIA. The chipset supports up
to 2 MB of cache.

 RJT> These numbers on the chips,  are they now a good way to 
 RJT> track down info?
Well, just doing a Google search for "VT82C585VP" turns up a
description of the chipset (VIA Apollo VP-1) at:

    http://www.tomshardware.com/motherboard/19960710/

The feature list is quite long. ;)

Ciao
Pascal

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