Monthly Archives: April 2020

Memory Trouble in Stormville

The OS/2 Museum recently acquired a genuine Intel DX79SR (Stormville) board. Together with its close siblings DX79SI (Siler) and DX79TO (Thorsby), these were the last “great” Intel motherboards, supporting the big LGA 2011 socket for the Sandy Bridge E platform—but … Continue reading

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386 Cache Coherency

I’ve been slowly chewing my way through U.S. Patent 5,724,549, titled Cache Coherency without Bus Arbitration Signals, initially filed by Cyrix Corporation in 1992 and published in 1998 (when it was utterly irrelevant, but such is the life of patents). … Continue reading

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