Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!unido!tub!tmpmbx!netmbx!blume From: blume@netmbx.UUCP (Heiko Blume) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Transwarp vs Zip Message-ID: <1723@netmbx.UUCP> Date: 15 Apr 88 10:28:21 GMT References: <8804101743.aa02087@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> Reply-To: blume@netmbx.UUCP (Heiko Blume) Organization: netmbx Public Access Unix, Berlin Lines: 37 > Even the transwarp can't get away from the slower RAM on the > 80 column card since it still has to use that to display doesn't > it (even by-passing the card's ROM and accessing the ctrc directly > doesn't make the display much faster -- about 4800 baud display > rate is all an Apple 80 column card will > do)? yes, the problem is that the video circuit is hardwired to use the motherboard/ 80col card memory. but it seems that is speeded up somehow anyway...when i run the hardisk check, the text in 40 col mode scrolls so fast that only the first two or so rows of pixels from some lines get to the crt before the ram is updated again... access // can receive and display serial data with 9600 bps, aztec's tty prgm keeps up with the at$ menu from my modem at 19200 bps *with* scrolling the stuff above. the major feature that transwarp has for me is that i can select which slots to use at 3.6 or 1 Mhz, since many cards (like my hardisk controller and SerialPro) can be used with 3.6 MHz . especially ramworks etc are used at full speed. anyway the zip chip seems to be a nice thing ! have phun ! -- Heiko Blume # DOMAIN: blume@netmbx.UUCP { BITNET: ( mixed } Seekorso 29 # BANG : ..!{backbone}!netmbx!blume D-1000 Berlin 22, West-Germany # Phone : (+49 30) 365 55 71 or ... 365 75 01 Telex : 183008 intro d # Fax : (+49 30) 882 50 65 -- Heiko Blume # DOMAIN: blume@netmbx.UUCP { BITNET: ( mixed } Seekorso 29 # BANG : ..!{backbone}!netmbx!blume D-1000 Berlin 22, West-Germany # Phone : (+49 30) 365 55 71 or ... 365 75 01 Telex : 183008 intro d # Fax : (+49 30) 882 50 65