From: "Greg Sevart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: The Hardware List <[email protected]>
To: "The Hardware List" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [H] New Intel 775 Pin Motherboards
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 07:25:10 -0500
The slot design was useful for only one thing--getting the cache closer to
the CPU core so a faster bus could be use. Once cache was integrated into
the die, the need for slots were out.
Tidbit: The Pentium Pro actually had an integrated L2 cache (well, the cpu
and cache were in the same package) and used socket 8. It was released some
two years before any Slot-1 Pentium II was shipped.
