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From: GFX@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Mac IIci: Prioritizing Bank B
Message-ID: <90045.193042GFX@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 15 Feb 90 00:30:42 GMT
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In article <22540@mimsy.umd.edu>, folta@tove.umd.edu (Wayne Folta) says:
>
>I just did another test...  I assumed that the wisdom that MultiFinder
>loads first into Bank B is incorrect.  So, I loaded up programs until
>I had less than 4Mb left, then loaded LISP.  This time, I got the 33%
>speed increase (27 clock ticks down to 19 clock ticks) in 8-bit mode that
>I wanted to see.
>
>So maybe MultiFinder isn't as bright as was previously assumed?
>--

Here's a great opportunity for those who like to write Inits!  Or for those
who like to upgrade systems :-)   Hmmmm.... seriously, it makes little sense
to realize that a 5meg machine will outperform an 8Meg machine most of the
time.  I guess that until there's a fix, I'll increase the size of my system
cache to 3 Megs...  Stephane