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Re: SRAM vs. DRAM, 33MHz 386 UNIX-PC

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From: Les Milash
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1989 16:13
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In article <3934@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM> kleinman@hplabs.hp.com (Bruce Kleinman) writes:
>[quote of a common way to make a d-cache useless]
>Unless your d-cache line size is wider than a word, and performs burst refills
>from main memory.  The '486, for example, will burst fill the 4-word line if
>suitably equipped with nibble-mode DRAMs.
a good point.

BUT:
	what is a nibble-mode dram?

	i do know what
		static ram
		VRAM
		page-mode dram
		static-column dram
	are (i think).
Ignorantly yours,
   xxx
Les Milash
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From: les@unicads.UUCP (Les Milash)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: SRAM vs. DRAM, 33MHz 386 UNIX-PC
Keywords: say what?!?!?
Message-ID: <626@unicads.UUCP>
Date: 11 Sep 89 16:13:54 GMT
References: <21936@cup.portal.com> <1082@cernvax.UUCP> <3934@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM>
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