Re: E-Bay Driving Up Apple II Prices

[Tanya <star@untogether.com>]

In article <399b554a.517478@24.9.0.17>, CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff 
Blakeney) wrote:

> On 16 Aug 2000 19:46:07 -0500, tanya@belly.net (Tanya) wrote:

> >The rev B RamFast I have is a little faster booting up but once
> >running performance is virtually identical to the CMS.  The typical
> >small programs used on the GS simply don't benefit from cache.
> 
> I don't know about that.  I recently switched from a RamFAST Rev D
> v3.01f ROMs with 256K cache to an Apple High Speed SCSI card (I added
> a CD-ROM drive to my system and my IIgs kept locking up when using the
> RamFAST).  I have noticed that the boot speed is slower and Spectrum
> launches slower now.

Well that's pretty much what I said.  It does boot faster,  but for the 
stuff I do on a GS combined with how much I was willing to spend, the 
difference is not that great to be worth $100 more.  If you're doing 
other things, say dealing with large files then YMMV.

FWIW, I once connected a 2X Toshiba CD-ROM drive to my GS using the rev 
B RamFAST card.  It worked fine.

> I've also heard that the RamFAST just blows everything else away when
> running ProDOS 8.  I can't really comment on that, though, as I use
> very few 8 bit programs on my IIgs.

ProDOS on a GS with any kind of hard drive is lightning fast, IMO, 
although on the RamFAST I imagine all of ProDOS would be always in the 
cache!

Tanya