Cache performance on 386 boards running Unix

Wm E Davidsen Jr davidsen at crdos1.crd.ge.COM
Fri Oct 27 01:26:39 AEST 1989


In article <6101 at portia.Stanford.EDU>, dhinds at portia.Stanford.EDU (David Hinds) writes:
|            In fact, 64K is quite large as caches go; the 80486 chip has
|  a cache of something like 256 bytes, but I wouldn't be surprised if
|  this had hit rates of 80-90%, even with very large programs.

  The 80486 that Intel sells has 8k.
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