Pascal Schmidt wrote in a message to Matt Mc_Carthy:

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

 PS> Note that this is due to CPUs not being designed to deal gracefully
 PS> with disabled cache anymore. Older CPUs didn't suffer that much.

Where would you draw the line to make that distinction?  I notice he didn't
say what CPU that was...   :-)

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