Bill Sommerfeld drunkenly mumbled...
> 
> ceramic.

thank you, sometimes i just feel dumb, and i'm too lazy to look it up (even with
online dictionaries, isn't that sad)

> This is true for pentium pro and pentium II, but at least among the
> intel chips, celeron (starting with 300A) and PIII coppermine have L2
> cache on-chip.

right on the same die as the core?  i was unaware of that.  course, i'm a SUN
bigot, so i don't really know much about anything newer that the 486.

> For certain workloads, celerons with on-chip 1-cycle 128kb L2 cache
> are faster than comparable speed pentium-II's with four times as much
> off-chip 2-cycle L2 cache.

hmmmm.  but somehow, i have this creeping feeling that 8MB is better than 
1-cycle 128Kb. :)  sorry, couldn't help myself.

-brian