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- From: Mike_Noreen@anet.bbs.bad.se (Mike Noreen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Secondary CPU cache for the Amiga
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- Date: Tue, 3 Nov 92 18:35:10 +0000
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- > CHEAP?! Do you have ANY IDEA of what you're talking about? While DRAM may be
- > cheap, FAST SRAM is NOT. As DaveH and some others have told, 040 is cheaper
- > and more effective power boost than 030 and external cache.
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- Yes, but if you've already got a A3000 (with '030), wouldn't it be rather nice
- to double performance using - say - 512k SRAM? This wouldnt have to be very
- expensive; less than one tenth of an average '040 accelerator for the A3000...
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