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- From: mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com (Maxwell Daymon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: EDO RAM on March Amiga?
- Date: 12 Jan 1996 06:12:41 GMT
- Organization: Rocky Mountain Internet Inc.
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- Niels Knoop (niels@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de) wrote:
- : 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.
-
- Someone with an ASUS (256K, pipelined burst sync) said after adding EDO
- RAM his computer improved by as much as 10 or 15% in some areas
- (including the bench done by Norton SysInfo).
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