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Audio Video Interleaved Video  |  1994-06-17  |  5.2 MB  |  320x240  |  10fps  |  52 seconds
Transcription: We've been looking at an Intel 386 processor, a relative weakling these days. The more powerful Intel 486 processor is similar to the 386 except that it has two other components. One is a small 8 kilobyte memory cache. Its purpose is to squirrel away a little data or code so that it can be processed as soon as the CPU is ready. A 486DX processor also has a numeric processor unit built into it to speed things even faster. The newest Intel processor, the Pentium, has two memory caches, one for code and one for data. And it has two execution units so that two separate software instructions can be ...