Re: TWGS

[kimba@gnh-cathouse.cts.com (Kim Brennan)]

>      RamFASTs are so problem prone and DONT work with everything.  It's 
> being constantly updated and that's WHY I am NOT buying one.  It might make
> your systems go FAST but I don't want to continually update Rev.C, Rev D, Rev
>  E etc paying 100$ or so every time..  here with the Apple II High Speed
> SCSI,  EVERYTHING works with it.  Even third-party stuff.  ZIPs work with it.
>  TWGS's  should work with it since AE followed APple's guidelines.  ANY SCSI
> device SHOULD work.  RamFAST was last updated because it couldnt read in
> flopticals..  how sad.

SURE AE followed Apple's guidelines! <insert heavy sarcasm> Tell that to my
power supply.

>     I've been to people's houses who have RamFASTs and I can tell you they're
>  only maybe .5 percent faster than my APple II HS SCSI Card..  I'm not
> justifying purchasing one right now just to make it that much faster. And
> ZIPs  are better than TWGS's, IMHO.

You have never run any heavy disk intensive applications then, which is where
the RamFAST shines. I run a BBS (EBBS, which is ProDOS 8 based) and the
RamFast makes WORLD of difference. On my OTHER GS (which also has a RamFAST) I
do occassional programming in Orca/M/C/Pascal. Again, having that RamFAST
helps file access QUITE a bit more .5 percent.
 
And, yes, I do have another computer for comparison purposes. That's the GS I
use at work which is only running the Apple Hi Speed SCSI card. It is
NOTICABLY slower in launching applications and Transproging from application
to application. 
 
I've used caching SCSI controllers almost from the beginning (beginning with
the MultiKache) cause I was NEVER able to get Apple's original SCSI card to
work with ANY of my hard drives. At least the Apple High Speed SCSI does work.

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