Re: Disk slower in 755CX

["Robert George" <george@holmes.cs.nps.navy.mil>]

On Aug 28,  7:58pm, Ted Baker wrote:
> Subject: Re: Disk slower in 755CX
>
> Moreover, the Pentium being a 64-bit processor, I would also
> expect some tendency toward memory starvation, even for those
> computations where the wider register size might pay off.
>
>-- End of excerpt from Ted Baker

The Pentium is a 32-bit processor.  Yes, it has an external 64-bit address and
data path, but the internal chip architecture is 32-bits wide.  Each 64-bit
transaction on the local bus is broken up into 2 32-bit transactions internal
to the chip.

Robert George
Army Research Lab