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From: taob@pnet91.cts.com (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: RamFast Write-Through Cache?
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Date: 22 Apr 91 02:30:03 GMT
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From asslk@acad2.alaska.edu (Kingry Shane L):

> What I meant was that if the controller card recieves 256K worth of data
> in say, second or two, or if it realizes that the GS is sending it big
> files, then it writes 256K or so at a time.

    But why is it taking so long to fill up 256K?  If the GS is writing out a
big file, I expect it to DMA a block of memory to the RAMFast buffer.  So
instead of a 1 or 2-second delay, it would be writing out a FULL buffer every
half-second or so...

Brian T. Tao   *B-) |  t569taob@bluffs.scar.utoronto.ca  | "Though this be
U of Metro Toronto  |               - or -               |  madness, yet there
Scarberia, ON       |        taob@pnet91.cts.com         |  is method in 't."