Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!gatech!mcnc!thorin!threonine.cs.unc.edu!leech From: leech@threonine.cs.unc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Effect of cache on system speed Message-ID: <5659@thorin.cs.unc.edu> Date: 3 Dec 88 01:33:13 GMT Sender: news@thorin.cs.unc.edu Reply-To: leech@threonine.cs.unc.edu () Organization: University Of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Lines: 15 Expires: References: Sender: Followup-To: Keywords: Any opinions or insights into which would be faster as a single-user Unix machine? The ubiquitous Norton SI seems useless for this type of comparison. - 20 MHz 80386, 100 ns memory, AMI write-through cache. - 25 MHz 80386, 70 ns memory, no cache (not sure if it's interleaved or page mode, though). Thanks! -- Jon Leech (leech@cs.unc.edu) __@/ ``My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.'' - Stephen Hawking