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>>It's a "M919" board, made in China, 4 ISA slots, 3 PCI, 1 VESA, 4x30 pin
>>simm, 2x72pin simm, I/O on board. It has a COAST module socket and the
>>module supplied with the board (async cache) has "FOR M919 USE ONLY"
>>written on the back. The other side has 8 71V256 15nSec cache chips and
>>one Toshiba 55V328 15nSec tag chip. The "manual" is a fold-out leaflet
>>of 8 pages with colour on the front and back. It describes all the
>>jumpers except JP1....
>
>>I am convinced these chips are fakes and are not "cache controllers".
>
>>The COAST module which came with the board makes the appropriate
>>performance increase appear when it is fitted...
>>

Help, Help, Help...

I've been following this thread with interest for some time, as I'm 
thinking of upgrading my VESA board to a Pentium PCI board.

Could someone point me in the direction of a good FAQ on the folowing 
jargon (COAST, async cache, pipeline cache, etc, etc). I'm especially 
interested in the cache situation, as I has a friend who bought a 
Pentium from Time computers which arrived without any form of cache. 
When he contacted Timethey stated that Pentiums didn't come with a cache!

He got his money back eventually.

Also, what the ****** is EDO Ram.

Any help much appreciated.

Yours in ignorance.