Re: Cache question..

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From: Scott
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 00:00

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On 19 Jan 1996 23:34:05 GMT, leung@DSG.Tandem.COM (Steven Leung)
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>The price differential bet'n EDO and regular ram is surprisingly small.
>I bought a 16MB system last month. The default is 70ns. But the shop
>just charges $30 more for 60ns EDO RAM. I'm surprised I guess 'coz
>I assume I need to pay more. Does the 256k cache cost about the same?

>But practically, almost all PC sold today have cache.
Don't count on that. Alot of dealers don't include external cache, and
if you don't know about it you won't think to ask. The external cache
does make a big difference in performance though..

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Date: 1996/01/20
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