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- From: ltchean@rambutan.iss.nus.sg (lim thye chean)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Accelerator Performance
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.015742.21019@nuscc.nus.sg>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 01:57:42 GMT
- References: <1992Sep13.043921.25873@cco.caltech.edu> <1992Sep13.165019.6149@nuscc.nus.sg>
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- Reply-To: ltchean@iss.nus.sg (lim thye chean)
- Organization: Institute of Systems Science, NUS, Singapore
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- In article <1992Sep13.165019.6149@nuscc.nus.sg> isc10327@nusunix3.nus.sg (ONG TAT-WEE) writes:
- >toddpw@cco.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) writes:
- >:
- >: And I'm saying that unless there is something you aren't telling me, what you
- >: are saying shouldn't be possible. Simply plugging in ram chips with a faster
- >: speed rating should not affect ANYTHING except the reliability of the Zip.
- >:
- >: The only way I can believe your statement as you worded it is if the Zip
- >: has some special circuitry for detecting when cache ram is too slow and
- >: automatically slowing down to accomodate it. I know of NO cache system that
- >: can do this, but I also do not know for a fact that the Zip doesn't attempt
- >: to do it, so I have to admit it's a possibility. But I am very skeptical.
- >:
- > Hmmm.... You've got a point there too. I don't really know if
- >the Zip accelerator does have a special circuitry for detecting cache
- >ram speed. But besides increasing the reliability of the Zip, shouldn't
- >a faster cache ram also produce faster results? Sound quite logical to
- >me.
-
- Not true, David. Go ask your comp science lecturer.
-
- If the RAM is slower than what is required, it will crashed because it cannot
- catch up the speed of CPU.
-
- If the RAM is faster, it will just wait for the CPU. It can't make the CPU
- go faster.
-
- You can either give satistics to prove us all wrong, or assume Todd is correct.
-
- >: Todd Whitesel
- >: toddpw @ cco.caltech.edu
- >
- >- DOTW -
- >I'm all zipped up.....
-
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