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From: warden@grad1.cis.upenn.edu (Robert Warden)
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Subject: Cache Cards
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Date: 10 Apr 91 00:23:41 GMT
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Hi, I've been thinking of purchasing a cache card for my IIci
and had some questions.

  1.  Does anyone out there have a cache card and do
      they think the performace increase is worth the price?

  2.  Which card is better - Apple's newly released card (64K I think)
                           - DayStar's Fast Cache IIci (64K)
                           - Technology Works IIci cache card (64K)

              I also remember reading somewhere about a 128K cache 
              card - anyone remember the name?

  3.  I once heard that people had problems with crashes on some
      programs that didn't expect the cache to be there.  Technically
      I think a cache should be transparent, but who knows what is
      actually done?

  4.  Is the "RAM cache" control in the Control Panel only for 
      an added cache card, or does it refer to something else?

  5.  Is the IIci cache an instruction cache, a data cache, or
      both (unified).  What type of performance increase are we
      talking about.  I want to speed up my IIci, but
      I'm not really excited about buying an accelerator since
      I don't need that much speed.
     
- Thanks!!

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