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- From: ewilts@galaxy.gov.bc.ca (Ed Wilts)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: RAM chips and the A3000
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.203519.967@galaxy.gov.bc.ca>
- Date: 5 Sep 92 03:35:13 GMT
- References: <copes.715597260@pride> <34903@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Reply-To: EWILTS@GALAXY.GOV.BC.CA
- Organization: BC Systems Corporation
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- In article <34903@cbmvax.commodore.com>, daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
- >
- > The basic, power-up mode is a simple, ordinary cycle by cycle RAM control mode.
- > This works with page-mode, nybble-mode, or static column memories (though you
- > aren't likely to find nybble mode parts in "x4" packages). The other two modes
- > require static colum parts (eg, they are both "static column" modes). The mode
- > that works it Burst, and you get this automatically if the OS detects static
- > column memory. This is typical 68030 burst support, you can get four longwords
- > prefetched into cache in 11 cycles, rather than the 20 cycles it would take
- > in the basic mode. But it's software dependent -- there's no guarantee that
- > all of these longwords are going to be used, this is a prefetch to the cache,
- > not under direct processor control. So rather than a 50% speedup, it tends to
- > average out at around 20%.
-
- CPU reports two different burst modes - instruction and data. What does it
- really mean when it says that I have instr cache and burst both on and data
- cache on but data burst off? Does this mean that it's detected page mode
- memories? I've got 2 MB chip and 2 MB fast but don't know if my fast ram is
- page-mode or static column and haven't opened the system up to read the part
- numbers.
-
- > Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests"
- > {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh BIX: hazy
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