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- Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 18:07:59 +0100
- From: Joachim_Worringen@mowgli.fido.de (Joachim Worringen)
- Subject: Re: EDO RAM on March Amiga?
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- In Article <bbd8300b@<4di159$ovn@carbon.cudenver.edu>>, wrote Scott Marlowe
- <gsmarlow@ouray.cudenver.edu>:
- >
- > * Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- >
- > Note that in independent testing by Computer <hernia> Shopper, pipeline
- > cache burst delivered 10-15% speedups, while EDO seemed good for nore
- > more than a 2% speed increase. Unless early EDO supporting motherboards
- > were heavily flawed, I would take this to mean that a fast cache is more
- > important than fast main memory, at least in a PC.
- >
- > I have no idea how much faster tweaking the output of ram like EDO would
- > have on the Amiga architecture.
-
- A 2nd-level cache would make much more sense than this timing-tweaking with
- EDO-Rams which are really nothing special. The speedup of EDO wouldn`t be
- noticed at all. Forget it - there are more important things for the Amiga
- architecture.
-
- -Joachim
-