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**A note on VESA support of 486 chipsets.
Many chipsets state  that they support VESA local  bus.  In some cases
these actually  implement VLB somewhat  like PCI, where it  is entirly
decoupled from the CPU bus. Chipsets  that do not state they work with
VLB,  may  be found  on  motherboards  that  contain VLB  slots.   VLB
is  *basically*  The 486  CPU  pinout in  a  slot  form. Unless  these
m/boards contain  some additional  chips, there VLB  implementation is
directly coupled to the CPU.

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*AMD . . . . . . . [no datasheets, some info]...
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*Contaq  . . . . . [no datasheets, some info]...
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**82497/492   Cache Controller / Cache RAM (for P54 Pentium)    <Nov94
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***Features:
o   High Performance Second Level Cache
    - Zero Wait States at 66 MHz 
    - Two-Way Set Associative 
    - Writeback with MESI Protocol 
    - Concurrent CPU Bus and Memory Bus Operation 
    - Boundary Scan
o   Pentium Processor (735\90, 815\100)
    - Chip Set Version of Pentium Processor (735\90, 815\100) 
    - Superscalar Architecture -
    - Enhanced Floating Point 
    - On-Chip 8K Code and 8K Data Caches
    - See Pentium Processor Family Data Book for More Information
o   Highly Flexible
    - 256K to 512K with Parity
    - 32-, 64-, or 128-Bit Wide Memory Bus
    - Synchronous, Asynchronous and Strobed Memory Bus Operation
    - Selectable Bus Widths, Line Sizes, Transfers and Burst Orders
o   Full Multiprocessing Support
    - Concurrent CPU, Memory Bus and Snoop Operations
    - Complete MESI Protocol
    - Internal/External Parity Generation/Checking
    - Supports Read For Ownership, Write-Allocation and Cache-to-Cache
      Transfers

**82498/493   Cache Controller / Cache RAM (for P54 Pentium)    <Nov94
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