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From: shutton@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Scott K. Hutton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: ide adapter, tape backup and ram speed
Message-ID: <1991May24.121334.1712@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Date: 24 May 91 12:13:34 GMT
Reply-To: msmith@att3b2.tricity.wsu.edu
Organization: Indiana University, University Computing Services
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msmith@att3b2.tricity.wsu.edu (Mark Smith) writes:
>Also... If a system is using 70ns rams currently, would 60ns speed anything
>up?  I've seen this question before but no anwers....

60ns chips will only speed things up if you are currently being forced
to use one or more wait states.  Faster chips only allow you to lower
the number of wait states.

  	
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