Re: ZipGS and RamFAST Questions

[irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt)]

In article <Pine.3.07.9404211551.C12026-a100000@cap.gwu.edu> dpfarrer@CAP.GWU.EDU (Daniel Pfarrer) writes:
>There are 2 kinds of RamFast SCSI cards, the RamFast 256k will transfer
>around 256k per second of data off your harddrive, a RamFast 1MB should
>transfer around 1MB of data per second.

Wrong.  There are 2 kinds of RAMFasts, but they both can DMA at 1 meg / second
theoretically.  The Rev. C is limited to 256k cache, and the Rev. D can have
either 256k or 1024k (that's a meg if you're in Rio Linda).  Actual
performance is the same, but the Rev. D's all-CMOS design may not work 

>A ZIP GS will speed up the CPU speed (e.g. the time it takes to think,
                                                                 ^^^^^

Contrary to what Daniel appears to say here, a Zip will not increase your
brainpower :)

>pull down big menus from the apple menu bar, etc...) You can order many
>different zip GS's, it all depends on the speed, I have a ZIP 9 MHz/64k, a
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

It also depends on the amount of SRAM cache.

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