Need Docs for XT RAM Board...

Ethan Dicks ethan.dicks at gmail.com
Fri Nov 10 17:27:54 CST 2006


On 11/11/06, Josef Chessor <josefcub at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/10/06, Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> wrote:
> > Just for yuks, how much difference does this make? I can't see where it
> > would be a lot.
>
> Speaking from experience, the actual difference is around five
> percent, give or take.  It wasn't much, but it seemed like a lot back
> then. :)

I remember spending $20 for a 68010-L8 to get that 5% advantage on an
Amiga 1000 (one-instruction loop cache was the relevant feature).
Back in the day, 5% for _free_ would have been sweet (I never knew
about this hack when I had an XT).

-ethan



More information about the cctalk mailing list