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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: EDO RAM on March Amiga?
- Date: 15 Jan 1996 12:24:18 +0100
- Organization: dis-
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- niels@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Niels Knoop) writes:
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- >Michael van Elst (mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de) wrote:
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- >> EDO-RAM is not faster. EDO-RAM is just a little bit more suited to
- >> burst transfers to and from 2nd level cache.
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- >On a PC, EDO-RAM can accelerate a Pentium nearly as much as (normal
- >asynchronous) 2nd level cache does, but has very little effect if
- >the board has 2nd level cache. On an Amiga (with Multitasking and
- >without 2nd level cache) it might have some extra value.
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- Still, EDO-RAM isn't faster. It just helps for efficient transfers.
- But you won't see this without the proper fast CPU that does burst
- fetches. EDO-RAM for a 030 is probably not worth the money. Things
- are different if you are talking about 040s and 060s.
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