Re: Ram

[dempson@swell.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <2C4A41D4.16418@news.service.uci.edu> andrep@balboa.eng.uci.edu (Andre Prellwitz) writes:
> In article <1993Jul16.161741.9853@actrix.gen.nz> dempson@swell.actrix.gen.nz 
> (David Empson) writes:
>   [edited]
> >> Has anyone Actually put a full 16 meg of ram on the IIgs?
> >
> >I doubt it.  The IIgs hardware (FPI) and memory manager only support
> >fast RAM in banks $00 through $7F (8 megabytes).
> 
> There are //e's with >1Mb.  The GS could do this as well, but it'd be slow.

You mean use bank switching within the 8 megabyte space?  It wouldn't
be compatible with any existing software, unless it was
program-specific, and the entire bank-switch area was allocated as a
single memory manager handle.

> >My SyQuest drive and Apple High Speed SCSI card is much faster than
> >RAM5.  Even my old slow Rodime hard drive is of comparable speed to a
> >RAM disk.
> 
> What about the /RAM5 driver for GS/OS that supposedly speeds things up by a
> factor of five or so?

I don't have 6.0.1 yet, so I can't comment.  RAM5 is about the same
speed as my Rodime, but my SyQuest is about ten times faster.
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David Empson                                                               
dempson@swell.actrix.gen.nz                                                
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