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Re: Ramfast



In article <C2GL2E.B7o@news.iastate.edu> irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt) writes:
>In article <01GUPV57N9Z48Y6988@ALBION.BITNET> AKARPENKO@ALBION.BITNET writes:
>>What is the difference between revision C and D?
>>Thanks.
>
>Rev D is a much smaller, cooler, less power-hungry board.  It has special
>circuitry so it can do DMA to incompatible cards (unless a TransSuck GS is
>in the system; Zips work fine).  There's no real speed difference or software
>difference.

Another difference between Rev B/C and D is that Rev. D comes with two
cache sizes, 256K and 1 Meg.  Although from the responces I've heard,
having 1 meg doesn't really make it any faster (in the real world.)

>
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Jimmy


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