Nicholas Alexander BuckendorfYes - I remember even way back in
   the old days of computers - when they had the various 86's at
   the end 286/386/486//amd 586 - the big deal was Cache. Even
   today, if I remember right, one of the best indications of the
   'smoothness' in performance of a computer is having multiple
   levels of cache; L1 + L2 if I remember right... they're actually
   physically different too...... I believe one is a NAND
   architecture and the other a NOR architecture.. but I might be
   mentally flipping over to my recent looking into the flash
   memory (haven't looked into Cache memory in over a year so I
   forget)"