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.
True. However, the size of the die was too large to make it economical for
anything but server usage. (die size = $$$) Plus, the Pentium Pro's cache,
as you state, was not integrated into the core so much as it was slapped
into the die package. Therefore, it couldn't achieve the same benefits of a
huge bus width and low latency that true integrated cache (first on the
Celeron A of all things...) brought.
Greg
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