Re: ramfast-ramkeeper-transwarp combo question

["sfahey" <sfahey@a2central.com.remove-fhz-this>]

  To: macdog
On 5/9/08 12:18 PM, in article
50a87946-cd42-4196-8073-d3d8636cc156@56g2000hsm.googlegroups.com, "macdog"
<bigdog128@gmail.com> wrote:

> I know that this is very anecdotal, but I run an 18 mhz TWGS and a 12
> mhz ZipGSX.  Both with an 8 meg CV Tech card, Apple HS SCSI, CFFA or
> Microdrive Turbo.  Honestly, I can't tell them apart speed for speed.
> Both seem very fast running around the finder, cutting/copying/
> pasting....etc....I don't know the reasons, DMA/larger cache,
> etc...but they seem to within a gnats behind of each other as far as I
> can tell.....Just using the "feels like" test.

The difference in speed would only be evident in non-cached processing, for
example crunching a spreadsheet formula, or performing an intensive sort
that took place in RAM.

Any disk I/O in the equation pretty much nullifies the acceleration, since
each most slow down at that time.
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