RAM question

Sean picasso@madflower.com
Fri, 16 Nov 2001 10:01:19 -0500 (EST)


On 16 Nov 2001, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Do typical modern motherboards have a cache?  I didn't realize
> that there was another level of caching beyond the 512 kB or so
> on the chip.

I don't know if anyone has a board for it but the mot 7450 (G4 rev2)
supports 8meg of offchip L3 cache. Apple didn't put a slot on the board
for it but that doesnt mean Mercury or Cisco won't. You could fit
an entire OS an apps in 8megs.