On Sunday, March 24, 2002, at 10:40 AM, Aaron wrote:
> Somebody correct this if I am not entirely correct, but...
>
> An Apple 604e CPU card is a Mach V if and only if its speed is 250 MHz
> or greater, the fastest being 350 MHz. Motherboards that came with
> slower cards are incompatible with Mach V cards, and vice versa.
And what about the 604e DP machines?
> What's different about the Mach V is that it has an "inline cache". I�m
> not sure how such a cache differs from the backside cache on the
> G3�s/G4�s, but it is on the CPU card rather than the motherboard.
The cache is on the CPU card in all Apple G3 and G4 Machines and also on
G3/G4 Upgrades for PCI PowerMacs. Any PCI CPU card has a quoted speed
and cache size. I presume inline cache is in someway faster though.
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