It was about five percent usable with only minimum communications and emergency tools running from a hardened memory cache.
The result is that 95 percent of the time the 80386-20 is getting its data with zero waits from the high-speed memory cache.
Its own data access used a machine-wide shared memory cache.
Maia paused, then impulsively pressed the button to see what the memory cache contained.
Like a 32K memory cache on a hard drive.
This will presumably improve performance by reducing the number of potential memory cache misses.
The operating system checked into its memory cache for the floppy disk and found what it was looking for.
Alex wiped away all the whirling dots and called another orbit from memory cache.
The client stores this information in a memory cache.
To ease the bottleneck, most computers use a high-speed memory cache, but that is just a stopgap measure.