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CPUShack
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rjluna2
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Nice, CPUShack 
I hope that my contribution on the pricing of the board enhanced your article. |
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CPUShack
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H3nrik V!
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Great article!
However, I wasn't aware, that 386's even was able to use cache? Were there ever any "native" 386 boards with cache? Or do I have it mixed up with internal cache, which didn't come until the 486 class processors? |
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CPUShack
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| H3nrik V! wrote: | Great article!
However, I wasn't aware, that 386's even was able to use cache? Were there ever any "native" 386 boards with cache? Or do I have it mixed up with internal cache, which didn't come until the 486 class processors? |
386 did indeed allow support for cache, and nicer motherboards had it.
Some even had 256K of cache
Here is one:
https://stason.org/TULARC/pc/motherboards/F/FUJIKAMA-USA-INC-386-80386-CACHE-SYSTEM.html
The 386SL added support for 16-64K of cache (reducing the amount of external chips needed to make the cache work)
Some non-Intel 386s DID have cache on die, the Cyrix, TI and IBM versions had 1-16K of L1 cache on die
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max1024
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| Thanks for the interesting story =) The board looks just gorgeous, if I may say so about hardware LOL. |
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| That was a great read. The upgrade solutions of the 80's and 90's are so interesting. |
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| Really nice story ! |
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