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2007-09-30 22:06:59 · 3 answers · asked by chandakay05 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
Cache is used as a temporary buffer because information can't get far enough around the motherboard in a clock cycle.
When I learned about computers, they were huge things with valves in and light could get from London to Edinburgh and back during a single clock cycle. Since then, they've got smaller and faster. Once we reached the stage where light couldn't get from one side of the box to the other in a clock cycle, they had to start putting in cache. Now i can barely get from one side of the processor to the other so there has to be cache inside the chip.
2007-09-30 22:13:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry but I cannot help as I do not know what a cache memory is. The answer from OLDKNOWALL could have been helpful but again I did not understand what he was talking about.
I was interested thought o see that he worked on computers when they were driven by valves. I to worked on early computers and one particular one had over a million thermionic valves in it and there were 5 people with the job of changing valves that failed. They worked all day non stop and a similar shift at night. The computer filled a room of about 50mx50m. The functions that that computer could handle are NOW done by a credit card sized calculator. Still they had to start somewhere.
2007-09-30 22:34:59 · answer #2 · answered by ANF 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cost.
2007-09-30 22:10:55 · answer #3 · answered by Cupcake 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋