Re: Jace: RamWorks III in the works

[Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com>]

BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, December 8, 2012 9:28:03 PM UTC-6, Michael J. Mahon wrote:
>> BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> The ram factor is different in this regard.  Because it has ROM onboard
>> 
>>> it has space for the prodos block driver and partition editor utility. 
>> 
>>> Hence you get a ram disk when booting with the ram factor.  Never having
>> 
>>> compared the two before, it seems the slot ram card has slightly better functionality.
>> 
>>> 
>> 
>>> This is just my subjective opinion though.  :)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> However, once you've selected a bank, you can directly address a RAMWorks
>> 
>> or execute code from it, while a RAMFactor always has to have its address
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>> set before a random access. 
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>> 
>> 
>> -michael - NadaNet 3.1 and AppleCrate II: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon
> 
> Very very true.  I'm surprised there wasn't a ram card that exposed
> bank-switched ram in the C8-CF pages in addition to slinky access. 
> There's something neat to be said for copying memory in/out of slinky ram
> though.  Namely, something I'm banking on (no pun intended), is the
> ability to use a slinky card to serve a really big stream of data.
> 
> -B

Yes, it makes a great swapping medium or RAM file storage device. 

-michael - NadaNet 3.1 and AppleCrate II: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon