From: David Ross (ross_at_math.hawaii.edu)
Date: Fri Jul 18 1997 - 18:54:04 EDT
> And the other thing is that the AMD 586-100 is only 32 bit, not 64 like the Pentium I think, plus the Pentium
> has the 16K cache. Doesn't the AMD have only 8K? It seems that since the AMD is still only 32 bit, it
The AMD does have 16K, and it is the faster write-back (for boards that
support this) instead of write-through cache. While the chip is only 32 bit,
it has some optimizations which make it not too much slower than
a P75, at least from the standpoint of pure CPU ops.
- David
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