Re: Which IIGS do you choose?

[Eric Rucker <bhtooefr@gmail.com>]

On Monday, August 29, 2011 12:01:10 AM UTC-4, Hugh Hood wrote:
> Not many 'real' IIGS systems, regardless of configuration, can boot System
> 6.0.1 in 8 seconds, as do the RAMFast / Zip 100 combos. If there is another
> combo that will, I'd love to know what it is.
I do believe I've seen a MicroDrive Turbo bringing up a real IIGS faster than that, and my Focus isn't far off. I haven't tried the CFFA3000 on a GS yet, but there's a huge bottleneck in device initialization that makes the CFFA3000 far slower on initial boot, and it seemed like the Focus was faster on the //e.

I would expect modern flash-based solutions to be faster, if they're optimized for speed, simply due to the lower latency - you don't need caches if you can get data back from the device as fast as you can shove it down the bus.

> Hey, I think the CFFA 3000 is great, too. Its ability to use flash ram, USB
> and images is absolutely fantastic and sets it apart from other solutions. I
> just think that in terms of raw speed on the Apple IIGS computer, the
> RAMFast is still the King by a comfortable margin, and thus is still _very_
> useful.
Based on my experiences with my CFFA3000 in my //e, I could believe that.

FWIW, this is what my actual GS config is, to give some perspective on what I picked:

ROM 3 (but will be ROM 01 once I have a replacement board)
Uther
Zip 12.5/64
SoundMeister (that I rarely end up using)
Focus
RAM-GS 4 MiB
2x Apple 3.5
2x Apple 5.25
AppleColor RGB
System Saver GS