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- From: newton@cs.utexas.edu (Peter Newton)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: Why is the IIsi so slow?
- Date: 30 Jul 1992 20:48:42 -0500
- Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
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- Several people have said that the IIsi runs faster when its cache
- is set to a large value. I have been told that this has something to
- do with the lack of video RAM in the IIsi-- the CPU and video compete
- for memory access. If this is true, how does changing the RAM cache
- speed things up? Is it not the case that all of the memory is on the
- same bus? Also, RAM devoted to the cache is still in use, right?
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- Peter Newton (newton@cs.utexas.edu)
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