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- From: model03@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (John Deke)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: SPEED and SPEED your IIsi
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.151357.44559@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 15:13:57 CST
- References: <1992Nov8.114114.24899@news.Hawaii.Edu> <#bm1_3#@rpi.edu>
- Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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- In article <#bm1_3#@rpi.edu>, simsh@crockett1c.its.rpi.edu (Chewbacca) writes:
- > guiyu@spectra.eng.hawaii.edu (Kui Yu Chang) writes:
- >
- >>For those who still don't know, I just read something here that says by
- >>setting the Disk Cache in Sys7 to 768K, you get faster screen updates on
- >>your Macintosh IIsi because all the RAM in Bank A(where the video memory
- >>is also allocated)will be used-up.
- >
- >>I did an EXPERIMENT immediately and find that the speed-up is IMPRESSIVE!!!
- >
- > Ah, but who can afford to give up an extra 640K with only 5M on the machine,
- > especially when running Sys. 7?
-
- I, too, have but 5M so I set my cacke to 384K.The speed increase is not quite
- as great as the 768K, but its good enough for someone too cheap to buy more
- memory - like me, for instance :-)
-
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- "We prefer to call it an 'unrequested fission surplus'" Monte Burns
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- John Deke
- JDEKE@oread.cc.ukans.edu
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