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- From: gc948374@hald.gbar.dtu.dk (Rask Lambertsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: 030 with no Fast RAM slower than a 020?
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Date: 23 Jan 1996 16:22:16 GMT
- Organization: DTU
- Message-ID: <4e31vo$mpm@unidhp.uni-c.dk>
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- On 21 Jan 1996 21:07:04 GMT Ola Nystrom (ola@canit.se) wrote:
-
- > >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.
-
- > 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)
-
- And to add to the speed problems of CHIP RAM, the processor also has to share
- the access to CHIP RAM with the custom chips. Screen display DMA is the
- biggest problem, as it can lock out CPU access of CHIP RAM for almost all the
- time in the highest screen resolutions in 256 colours/HAM8.
-
- --
- Regards,
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- | Rask Ingemann Lambertsen | E-mail: gc948374@gbar.dtu.dk |
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