Matt Mc_Carthy wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 CA>>> There will never be enough hard drive space or memory but you 
 CA>>> probably already realize that. I dream of 1 gig of memory 
 CA>>> knowing at some point I would want more. Everything is just so 
 CA>>> darn fast when in-memory and not reading/writing to the hard 
 CA>>> drive. :-)

 PS>> Heh. Exactly the reason why I have 640M in my machine. Now 
 PS>> imagine how fast a machine with an on-CPU cache of that size 
 PS>> would be. ;) 

 CA>> Intel will get around to that eventually. :-) 

 RJT> Or making some CPU that _requires_ such...   :-)

 MMC> If you want to KNOW what the difference is, just go to CMOS and
 MMC> select "Disable" for your "Internal CPU
cache".  When it boots,
 MMC> you will swear you were running an old XT computer, or slower!

 MMC> With the internal cache disabled (which I have to do for my EPROM
 MMC> burner), this 500MHz system takes a full 5 minutes to boot to DOS!

I remember my first 386 board,  that had some sort of a problem with the
_external_ cache on it.  The machine would be going along fine,  and then
would just lock up solid.  Usually around the point where I was in the
middle of entering a message and about to save it,  as I recall.  

Disabling _that_ was no fun,  particularly.

I'm wondering,  with that Celeron box I'm waiting to bring up here,  what
it is that chip has on board for internal cache.  I'll have to look into
that.

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