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- From: niels@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Niels Knoop)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: EDO RAM on March Amiga?
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- Date: 11 Jan 1996 23:22:38 GMT
- Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt
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- Michael van Elst (mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de) wrote:
-
- > EDO-RAM is not faster. EDO-RAM is just a little bit more suited to
- > burst transfers to and from 2nd level cache.
-
- 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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- | Ciao! /// Niels Knoop /// e-mail:
- niels@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de |
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