Comment by rob74
7 hours ago
Yeah, when I read that, I thought "this guy was either born wayyy after 1995, or he doesn't know the first thing about computer hardware history, or both". 1995 was the year the Pentium Pro was launched, which was (one of?) the first CPU(s) to integrate the L2 (!) cache into the same package as the CPU - they were still separate chips, but the interconnection could be made faster by putting them into the same package.
Yeah, 1995 is much too late. I'd say somewhere about 1990. Maybe you can go as early as the i386 and 68030 in the late 1980s but I'd be hesitant to include them.