Re: Linux betas NT in TPC testing, running Oracle8
Date: 1999/05/15
Message-ID: <7hj5nm$lp9$1_at_bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au>#1/1
<jedi_at_dementia.mishnet> wrote in message
news:slrn7jpsjb.k16.jedi_at_dementia.mishnet...
> On Fri, 14 May 1999 08:26:30 -0500, nik <ndsimpso_at_ingr.com> wrote:
> >
> >1. Very few 486 systems have PCI, and on those that do the
implementation
> >sucks. SO you don't have enough I/O bandwidth available.
>
> You don't need all of PCI's bandwidth to keep up with SCSI-3.
In theory. Most 486 boards had pretty dodgy PCI chipsets.
> >
> >2. The memory capacity of 486 systems is usually too small and the
interface
> >to slow to handle the memory bandwidth requirements.
>
> My last 486 had 32M and room for more actually.
It probably held a lot more but only cached the first 32 (64 if you're
lucky). I've only seen one 486 board that cached more than 32MB and it
needed a cache upgrade to do it.
Kinda like TX motherboards can take 512MB but only cache the first 64.
Received on Sat May 15 1999 - 00:00:00 CEST