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From: iisakkil@beta.hut.fi (Mika Iisakkila)
Subject: Re: DX50 vs DX266
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arnolm2@aix.rpi.edu (Matthew Richard Arnold) writes:
>chip in the future.  I must be missing something, since everyone is 
>buying the DX2 66...  Many adds don't even mention the DX 50.

The 50 MHz external bus speed provides a hell for cache designs. Most
of the DX-50 boards have too slow caches that make them effectively
DX2-50:s. Also as someone else pointed out, local bus boards are
better off at 33 MHz bus speed. The 8k internal cache allows the
DX2-66 to be generally faster anyway.
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