Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/3/85; site ukma.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ukma!sambo From: sambo@ukma.UUCP (Father of micro-ln) Newsgroups: net.arch Subject: Re: 386 Architectural Description Message-ID: <2343@ukma.UUCP> Date: Tue, 29-Oct-85 17:03:32 EST Article-I.D.: ukma.2343 Posted: Tue Oct 29 17:03:32 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 30-Oct-85 07:24:50 EST References: <531@petfe.UUCP> Reply-To: sambo@ukma.UUCP (Father of micro-ln) Organization: Univ. of KY Mathematical Sciences Lines: 21 In article <531@petfe.UUCP> bobp@petfe.UUCP (Dan Masi) writes: >> 32 entry on-chip paging cache (translation lookaside buffer) with >> a 98% hit rate for efficient paging >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >Does this mean that I will see a 98% cache hit rate for *all* programs >that I can run on this processor??? Hmmm... I think this flame is unwarranted. If the author had read the original posting more closely, he would have noticed that it was a brief des- cription of the 386, and if he would have bothered to read some more detailed literature from Intel, he would have found out that this fi- gure of 98% is for typical systems. -- Samuel A. Figueroa, Dept. of CS, Univ. of KY, Lexington, KY 40506-0027 ARPA: ukma!sambo<@ANL-MCS>, or sambo%ukma.uucp@anl-mcs.arpa, or even anlams!ukma!sambo@ucbvax.arpa UUCP: {ucbvax,unmvax,boulder,oddjob}!anlams!ukma!sambo, or cbosgd!ukma!sambo "Micro-ln is great, if only people would start using it."