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Subject: Re: A New Deep Blue?

Author: Ernst A. Heinz

Date: 01:12:32 04/24/98

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On April 23, 1998 at 16:28:54, Frank E. Oldham wrote:

>A recent BYTE article discussed the POWER3.  I was impressed by the
>aggregate cache and memory bandwidth.  For example, the chip has a
>256-bit L2 cache bus (compared to 64-bit for PCs and Macs).

Most Alpha workstations (even the cheaper AlphaPC mainboards) have
had 256bit buses between their CPUs, the external L2/L3 caches, and
even the main memory *for years*.

=Ernst=



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