[rescue] Re: Wanted - Dual (or quad) PPro

[Joshua D. Boyd]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 08:25:18AM -0800, Brian wrote:
> I remember drueling over these because the L2 cache was on chip, not
> elsewhere on the motherboard, and ran at full clock speed, not a lesser
> multiple.

L2 cache on chip wasn't much of an inovation.  Others had already done
multi die packages, so I don't see using the second die as L2 as a big
deal, but I'm willing to cede that Intel did that first, for lack of
time to find cases otherwise.

I'm not positive that L2 at full CPU clock speed was original to the
PPro.  And I'd also argue that it isn't very important overall, but it
did make for a fairly fast CPU at the time.