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- > On Tue, 13 Feb 1996, Magnus Kollberg wrote:
- >
- > > > I'm in a direct contact with the author of FX - Georg Acher. I've asked
- > > > the same thing month ago. He said that the Fast Page mode surely will come
- > >
- > > He didn't know when?
- >
- > No, he is busy with special extender for 72-pin SIMMs right now.
-
- Okey. Hmmmm.... maybe I should get one of those FX-cards. They are rather cheap
- and gives you a good bost and that page mode _does_ sounds interesting. :-)))
- I wonder how much faster the falcon will be with that. :-)
-
- > > Maybe someone else (you?) could optimze it for fast-RAM later as Doug havn't
- >
- > I don't know enough about 030 to optimize assembler for Fast RAM, sorry :(
- > Anyway, it's still about 1 fps faster than w/o FastRAM, so I don't bother ;)
-
- Yup, I thought you would say that. :-)
- I think that there isn't realy anything we can complain about (or at all) on
- Doug's work, as he have done soooo much for the project. :-)
- How many did realy think that we would get such a speedy, nice looking 3D engine
- after what we have seen before on the falcon? Ofcourse, we wanted it to be, but
- who _realy_ thought that it was possible?
-
- > > > > How should they do it then. The falcon just can't handle higher clockrates and
- > > > > doesn't have a true 32 bit bus.
- > > >
- > > > They should go directly to 040.
- > >
- > > Yes, they have the Barracuda too you know. The Hawk is its little brother.
- >
- > Barracuda is out already ? I don't believe it ;-)
-
- Don't. :-)
- Neither of them are released yet, and I doubt that they ever will. :-(
-
- > > I know that it sounds silly, but I know of a guy that are in directly contact
- > > with Wizztronic and they have tested the Afterburner and they found that
- > > the Hawk is faster in most cases. If this is true, I don't know, but that is
- > > what they have said. I think the Hawk can benefit _alot_ from the big cache
- > > that the Afterburner havn't got.
- >
- > Is it a second level cache ? That can help really. So we've to get
- > Afterburner with the cache also.
-
- Yup, it's second level cache, 256kb of them if I remember correctly and I think you
- could expand it to 512kb.
-
- > > > yep. I'm pretty sure Linux would run on Afterburner much faster than on Hawk.
- > >
- > > Maybe, maybe not.
- >
- > hmmm, let's try it ;-)
-
- ;-)
- I have heard that there is still some problems with the Afterburner as well. Most
- of them have to do with that it's not configured correctly.
-
- //Magnus Kollberg
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