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From: hamilton@intersil.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A3000 DATA Cache (Can we PLEASE Settle this?)
Message-ID: <274.2857ae21@intersil.uucp>
Date: 13 Jun 91 17:40:49 GMT
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In article <21999@cbmvax.commodore.com>, daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
> 
> Under 2.02, it's supposed to default to 
> 
> 	(INST: CACHE BURST) (DATA: CACHE NOBURST)
> 
> In SetCPU's words.

Under ever incarnation of 2.0 I've ever seen, my machine has always booted 
with :	(INST: CACHE NOBURST) (DATA: NOCACHE NOBURST) in (Set)CPU's words.

Performance does increase when I turn on the datacache and a little more
when I enable burst modes, but why don't they come up enabled on my machine
(and, it seems like, most everyone elses)?  

> Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests"
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