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- From: chiu@alumni.berkeley.edu (David Chiu)
- Subject: Re: Turbo IDE Card description
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.010748.13116@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
- Summary: Dual ROM
- Originator: chiu@alumni
- Sender: nntp@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU (NNTP Poster)
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- Organization: University of California Society of Electrical Engineers
- References: <1992Dec11.134016.8827@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> <1992Dec11.181147.3239@news.columbia.edu> <behrenss.724116241@hphalle6>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 01:07:48 GMT
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- In article <behrenss.724116241@hphalle6> behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Soenke Behrens) writes:
- >stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Steven T Chiang) writes:
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- >>In article <1992Dec11.134016.8827@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Soenke Behrens) writes:
- >>>The ROM on the card is highly optimized for maximum throughput, using 65816
- >>>commands in the GS version. You can order both ROMs (if I recall correctly,
- >>>a ROM costs $10), so if you want to swap machines (which you don't do every
- >>>day normally, anyway ;), you just exchange the ROM and that's it.
- >> Although, in theory, you should be able to use the //e version
- >>in both machines. That way, you wouldn't have to swap ROM chips.
-
- >True. But then, on the GS, you'd probably have less speed under P8. Oh well :)
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- Wouldn't it be easier to just use a larger capacity ROM chip and select
- //e | //gs using a single jumper?
-
- >Soenke
-