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Re: Apple II GS Question



: In article mportune@telerama.lm.com (Matt Portune) writes...

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: >And yes, especially with a meg of cache on the RamFAST and the slot set to 
: >"fast" on the Zip, hard drive performance is SCARY.  What was our shift boot 
: >speed, Mitch?  I know mine is about 3.5 seconds from splash-screen to desktop, 
: >and yours was a hair faster if I remember correctly.  (I'm still running at 
: >14.33 MHz)   :)

How, exactly, does the Zip accelerate the slot speeds?  Since I was under the 
understanding that you could not bypass the 1Mhz bus, does it simply shadow 
the slot area (of memory bank $e1 or something) into its cache???

		Brian   
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