[geeks] squeaking away....

Greg A. Woods woods at weird.com
Tue Apr 16 14:20:43 CDT 2002


[ On Tuesday, April 16, 2002 at 12:35:09 (-0500), Eric Dittman wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [geeks] squeaking away....
>
> > I tried it on a 700MHz P-III some time ago and was less than thrilled by
> > the not-very-stunning speed up.  I think part of the problem is the lack
> > of L2 cache on the P-III, but also no doubt part of the problem was the
> > low-end S3 on-board VGA....
> 
> Where did you find a P-III without L2 cache?

Do you all 256KB "cache"?!?!?!?!?  For what!?!?!?!?

"lack of" == "not enough"

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