Hi,

[ blah blah cache stuff ]

You aint gonna get 8Mb of full-speed cache on-die in any CPU - however
hard you dream.  Yield would be so low that you'd have to sell your
company for every CPU you bought as they'd cost so much (HP do this
with normal CPUs - $45,000 for a 64-bit piece of slow crap).  They do
seem to avoid the cache speed discussion on their web site I notice.
Anyone know what the clock ratio is?  1:1, 2:1 etc?

[ Intel CPUs in 1969 ]

Intel did *design* a CPU in 1969 but it wasn't very useful AFAIK.
I don't think they ever produced one in the end, waiting till the
4004 in '71.  I'll dig out some info if I can find what tape it's
on.

> One interesting feature of the Netra's that no one has mentioned yet
> is the low level prom accessible via serial console.  On the Netra's
> we have at work, if you issue 'power-off' at the open boot prompt, it
> drops you into a lower level prompt with some basic functionality
> (basically control the hardware)

Now that is nice :)  Better than any system in that department.  No
more booting up and playing with `live diagnostic' software :P  Thats
dangerous stuff but fun.

- Chris.