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**What's not included:
All  information included  in  this  file can  be  referenced to  some
document or  picture.  Or at least  should be:-) As a  result of this,
proprietary chip sets, and odd combinations of different chip sets are
not  usually  included.   There  tends  to  be  scant  information  on
proprietary chip sets, i.e.  no  datasheet.  Similarly chip sets built
using some components  from one manufacture and some  from another are
kind of difficult to deal with.

An example  I know of  is a  25 MHz 386  DX motherboard that  uses the
Intel N82230/N82231  (formerly, ZyMOS)  286 chip  set, with  an AUStek
cache Controller.   I know it  existed but there is  no documentation.
So the best I can say you'll have  to take my word that it existed.  I
can't include it because there is no real information there.

Also  not  included  is  anything  that  isn't  a  PC-compatible  chip
set.  I.e.  no Macintosh  info.  Any Information  on PC-incompatibles/
pseudo-compatibles, and  other weirdi-type  stuff I have  a particular
interest in.  See  the section: 'Info needed on'.  Some information on
video  chip  sets  is  included,  occasionally but  the  focus  is  on
motherboard implementation.

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**A note on VESA support of 486 chipsets....
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*_IBM...
*ACC Micro...
*ALD...
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*AMD . . . . . . . [no datasheets, some info]...
*Chips & Technologies...
*Contaq  . . . . . [no datasheets, some info]...
*Efar Microsystems [no datasheets, some info]...
*ETEQ...
*Faraday...
*Forex . . . . . . [List only, no datasheets found]...
*Intel...
**82495DX/490DX DX CPU-Cache Chip Set                           <Sep91
***Notes:...
***Info:...
***Configurations:...
***Features:...
**82495XP/490XP Cache Controller / Cache RAM (for i860)       06/05/91...
**82496/491     Cache Controller / Cache RAM (for P5 Pentium) 03/22/93...
**82497/492   Cache Controller / Cache RAM (for P54 Pentium)    <Nov94...
**82498/493   Cache Controller / Cache RAM (for P54 Pentium)    <Nov94...
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**Later chipsets (basic spec):
**440 series:...
**450NX  (?)            06/29/98:...
**?????  (Profusion)    c:99...
**800 series...
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**SL82C465    Cache Controller (for 486/386DX/SX)                 c:91
***Info:
The SL82C465 cache controller supports both 1X and 2X clock modes. The
1X clock  mode means that the CCLK2  signal is used as  the CPU clock;
the 2X clock  mode means that the PCLK signal  (half the frequency and
the phase indicator  of CCLK2) is used as the  CPU clock. The SL82C465
and other CPU local bus devices run at the same clock frequency as the
CPU, while  the rest of the system  runs at the frequency  of PCLK. In
other words, the operating frequency of the system logic is either the
same (2X clock mode) or half the speed of the CPU (1X clock mode). For
the 1X clock mode, the timing of the signals between the CPU/Cache and
the system logic interface  is converted by the SL82C465 automatically
to  satisfy  the requirement  of  individual  clocks.  Table 1-1  [see
datasheet] lists  the operating frequencies  of the CPU local  bus and
the system logic with the oscillator used.

The 2X  clock mode is recommended  for a CPU frequency  no faster than
33Mhz because the system logic  is available at the targeted speed and
the  performance  is  slightly  better  than if  1X  clock  mode  were
used. For  a CPU  frequency faster  than 33Mhz, the  1X clock  mode is
preferred  for  486  systems  because  it  becomes  increasingly  more
difficult to  build a reliable  system with an oscillator  faster than
66Mhz.

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