01 Nov 2003, 20:16, Roy J. Tellason (1:270/615), wrote to Charles Angelich:

Hi Roy.

 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...   :-)

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

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


     Good luck...  M.

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