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Fellow Nettoids:

  I had recently upgraded my home machine from an old 10Mhz 8088 to a 25Mhz 
80386sx.  While I enjoyed the increase in speed, I noted that the 386sx has 
6 wait states between memory reads/writes in 8 bit mode (and 11.5 in 32 bit 
mode).  This really annoys me.  I am aware that I could drop in a cache (
there is a slot for the optional card), but 32k is not nearly enough, and my 
code uses larger arrays in extended memory (therefore many cache misses).

So, on to the point.  I would like to know if there are any motherboards 
that are not as badly memory bandwidth limited, that have at most 1 wait 
state between main memory, and the processor, without a cache.  I am 
thinking 386 or 486 motherboards  (I am not even remotely interested in 
486sx).  I have heard that a board called the "cheetah" or similar has this 
property.  Or, if possible, is there mother board with a 1MB cache on it?  (
my arrays tend to be >3MB each).  I would like to hear about peoples 
experiences with such beasts.

Thanks for the info, I will post a summary if there is enough interest.

Joe Landman
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