On 20 Nov 98 at 19:12, [log in to unmask] wrote:

> What is a "coast module"?

  COAST (Cache On A STick -- I am *not* making this up!) was a design
for putting L2 cache memory on a daughtercard, looking a little bit
like a SIMM.  A typical motherboard using the Intel 430FX or 430VX
chipset might have 256KB of L2 on the board, and a COAST socket that
could hold a 256K or 512K module.
  [On the VX board I had, you could use either the COAST module or
the on-board cache, but not both, so a 256KB module was a complete
waste.  If this was generally true of such boards, that would explain
why the whole idea was quietly dropped....]

David G

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