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- From: ola@canit.se (Ola Nystrom)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: 030 with no Fast RAM slower than a 020?
- Date: 21 Jan 1996 21:07:04 GMT
- Organization: CanIt Public Access, Stockholm
- Message-ID: <744.6594T926T2709@canit.se>
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- >I would have thought the reason is that when you're using an accelerator with
- >out FastRAM, the 030 (or whatever) then has to go through the A1200's CPU bus
- >to get to the ChipRAM. The ChipRAM is slower (I don't know how slow and I am
- >not taking the Ami apart just to find out) than most FastRAM which is usually
- >either 60 or 70 ns.
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- I thougth that the main reason why ChipRAM is slower than FastRAM is because
- ChipRAM is clocked in 7.14 MHz and your precios FastRAM is clock in whatever
- your CPU is (ie 25 MHz)
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- Am I wrong ?
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