🚀 go-pugleaf

I have just been to two retailers in Derby (Griffin and Zodiac) to 
try to my a new 486 mobo.

Both offered identical boards - UMC chipset, 1 VLB slot, a few PCI, 
etc, 4X30 pin, 2x72 pin SIMM sockets, and, in the front right 
corner, two square chips, soldered in (tiny pins all round the 
edge), each marked "Write Back" and a load of numbers, none of which 
looked like a size or speed indicator.

Griffin insisted these were 256k write back cache, and claimed never 
to have heard of fake cache.  They also said I had the option of 
using a special slot on the board for either pipeline burst cache or 
asynch cache, the latter being configurable as write back or write 
through in the BIOS setup.  They said this module was similar to, 
but not identical to, Pentium modules, and wanted an extra tenner 
for one.

Zodiac said these two mysterious chips were there to enable the 
write back cache function, both internal and external, and that the 
cache itself was the module which plugged into the slot.  They 
included this in their price (20ukp dearer than Griffin)

Questions:  Which dealer, if either, was correct?
            Is there such a thing as pipeline burst cache on a 486 
mobo?
            Are these boards really the very latest technology, as 
Griffin said, or what?

I didn't buy one :-(

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