At 12:06 AM 2/28/99 -0900, you wrote:
> Eh? All the original Celeron chips were sans cache, only after
>the customers started screaming about a 300 performing like a 200mhz
>pentium did the 300A and later come out with a reduced size cache (instead
>of none).
Really??? Hm. Silly buggers. Never ever ever ever release a chip without a
cache. I don't suppose they were reasonable and charitable and gave
everyone who got a chip from the bum batch a free upgrade to a 300A?
And "minimize possible cache hits on cacheless Celeron chips" is still a
vacuous condition...
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