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From: Gus_Rivera@UB.CC.UMICH.EDU
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Subject: OKS Kache Card
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Date: 14 May 89 05:52:14 GMT
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Many posts ago, a quote from Andy Nicholas:
 
"PS-If none of you have seen the OKS Kache card and you have a need for high
    speed disk i/o, please do so.  The card they make does DMA to get the
    info from the disk into the cpu, so it FLIES when it reads a disk (Hd,
    3.5" drive, or 5.25" drive).  It's so fast that when booting, it takes
    roughly 13 seconds to boot into the system 4.0 finder from a 3.5"
    drive!  If it has booted before, then it boots from the cached image,
    and only takes a mere 6 seconds to get to the finder.  Check into the
    card if you are a real "need-speed" person."
 
  Well, I owned the 1 MB OKS Kache card for about 25 days or so, and the
speed quoted above is greatly exaggerated.  Booting to the system 4.0 finder
from a 3.5" disk w/o any NDA's (except for the Cache NDA), took about
28 seconds or so.  And booting from the 1 MB cache (warm boot) took
approximately 13 seconds. By the way, I returned the card ($550+) and bought
myself a 64MB SCSI hard drive for $768 (See the HomeBrew HD article in
A+ - April or May?).  Just clearing things up :).
 
Gus Rivera