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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!simsh
  3. From: simsh@crockett1c.its.rpi.edu (Chewbacca)
  4. Subject: Re: SPEED and SPEED your IIsi
  5. Message-ID: <#bm1_3#@rpi.edu>
  6. Nntp-Posting-Host: crockett1c.its.rpi.edu
  7. References: <1992Nov8.114114.24899@news.Hawaii.Edu>
  8. Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 22:00:28 GMT
  9. Lines: 15
  10.  
  11. guiyu@spectra.eng.hawaii.edu (Kui Yu Chang) writes:
  12.  
  13. >For those who still don't know, I just read something here that says by
  14. >setting the Disk Cache in Sys7 to 768K, you get faster screen updates on
  15. >your Macintosh IIsi because all the RAM in Bank A(where the video memory
  16. >is also allocated)will be used-up.
  17.  
  18. >I did an EXPERIMENT immediately and find that the speed-up is IMPRESSIVE!!!
  19.  
  20. Ah, but who can afford to give up an extra 640K with only 5M on the machine,
  21. especially when running Sys. 7?
  22. -- 
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  24.      Hillel Sims                        e-mail: simsh@rpi.edu
  25.      >:-) The Smiling Vulcan            Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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