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From: tagreen@lothario.ucs.indiana.edu (Todd Green)
Subject: Re: IIsi, Cache, video, & speed
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Date: Fri, 14 Jun 91 19:15:36 GMT
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In article <79997@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> v113px6j@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu writes:
>performance in this situation?  Other's have said they have seen 
>improvements, what did they use to test it?

I used my eyes.  I was recently given a IIsi, perhaps allocated is a
better term.  Anyway, I was amazed at how slow it was in comparison to
the IIcx I have at home.  After upping the cache to 768K (lower
amounts didn't matter and I'm not running any inits on the machine
besides SuperClock), I noticed a very significant speed increase in
drawing operations. i.e. menus snapped down faster, windows opened
quicker, redraws didn't take as long etc etc.  There was a definite
visible difference in the performance of the machine.  I haven't had
time to do tests to see how it affects others logging onto your
machine etc. (I know before I set the cache just having one person
access my machine over the net made it almost unusable during file
transfers. )  I believe the machine has a Quantum 40 in it and 5 meg,
but haven't had time to open the machine to look at the drive yet (or
get SCSI probe etc etc.)

Todd
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