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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: 11 Jan 1996 09:02:07 +0100
- Organization: dis-
- Message-ID: <4d2g5v$inp@serpens.rhein.de>
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- wfblan@netcom.com (Wells Fargo Bank) writes:
-
- >This would be great as the upwards of 10% improvement in performace with
- >the RAM, and at only about $10 per SIMM more than standard DRAM SIMMS,
- >it would be a great way to boost the performace and a low cost.
-
- I am not sure about the net effect. EDO-RAM is not faster. EDO-RAM
- is just a little bit more suited to burst transfers to and from
- 2nd level cache.
-
- >They are going to be adding RAM slots, thats a definite. I can't imagine
- >that supporting the EDO RAM would cost much if any more than for the
- >standard RAM.
-
- Support would probably cost nothing.
-
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- Michael van Elst
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