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- From: M.L.Lie@net.HCC.nl (Mui Liang Lie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: EDO RAM and Amiga?
- Date: Sun, 04 Feb 1996 07:46:48 GMT
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- dave.haynie@scala.com (Dave Haynie) wrote:
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- >Actually, 68030 systems from 25MHz on up could easily have benefitted
- >from EDO RAM. We could have done one wait-state burst, rather than
- >two, with EDO RAM in the A3000.
-
- >The reason you don't see any speedups with EDO RAM on older systems is
- >that EDO RAM just plain didn't exist back then. You have to designed
- >a memory controller to use EDO's special feature (data hangs valid
- >after you take away CAS); if your memory controller doesn't know about
- >EDO, it'll behave just like any other page-mode part.
-
- >Since virtually every 33MHz or slower system was designed before EDO
- >parts were out, EDO parts as a rule don't speed up systems that
- >slow. But this not based on EDO's suitability in slower systems.
-
- A quick side question:
- Does this mean than EDO Ram can be (noticable) used in an
- CBM's A4000/040, AT's A4000/040T and any other Amiga with a
- 68040/060 accelarator using Amiga's own memory board or only
- with a extra memory board?
-
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- M.L.Lie
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