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- Subject: Re: Mac ROM -> RAM?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.091326.3152@otago.ac.nz>
- From: michael@otago.ac.nz
- Date: 23 Jul 92 09:13:26 +1300
- References: <14hoqmINN3gv@network.ucsd.edu> <1992Jul22.172219.8991@news.uni-stuttgart.de>
- Organization: University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- In article <1992Jul22.172219.8991@news.uni-stuttgart.de>, skok@itwds1.energietechnik.uni-stuttgart.de (Holger Skok) writes:
- >>My Mac IIfx rom is bad and I want to put a copy of my good
- >>Mac IIfx rom into the bad one's ram so I can at least work without
- >>it crashing every other time I run a piece of software.
- >>
- > Wouldn't that also speed up the machine somewhat? It's a common strategy
- > for speeding up MESSDoze-PeeCees. (fastbios.sys)
- > Can someone knowledgeable elaborate on that?
-
- Good question. When the Mac was first introduced, one of the big selling points
- of the Toolbox in ROM was that it actually ran faster than code in RAM, because
- it didn't have to fight with the video for access. This state of affairs is now
- long gone by and must have reversed by now. I notice that the cost-sensitive
- pared-to-the-bone LC's have a 32-bit path to ROM, but only a 16-bit path to
- RAM, which gives some indication of the drastic effects a 16-bit path to slow
- memory must have had on performance. What effect it has on IIsi/ci's one can
- only guess, but the speedup you get from cache cards has to be partly due to
- this.
-
- Michael(tm) Hamel, Computing Services Centre, University of Otago, New Zealand
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- CHEB (n.)
- An embarrassing nickname by which a fourteen-year-old boy insists that he now
- wishes to be known.
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