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#A4000 and Me!

    30-Dec-92 12:42:11
Sb: #31056-#A4000 and Me!
Fm: Denny Atkin [COMPUTE/Ami 75500,3602
To: Mark D. Manes 74030,744
Mark, There's a command written by Greg Tibbs and included with the PP&S 040 cards that will copy Kickstart to 32-bit RAM on the A4000. Guess what, though? The speedup is almost NIL! Between the fact that the ROMs are 32-bit and the fact that most ROM routines get cached by the 040, what copying Kickstart to RAM does primarily is waste 512K of RAM… The command is called FastROM040, and I've seen it on BIX and GEnie, if you want to try it. Just put it before SetPatch. Isn't there a little pot next to the clock for adjusting its speed? There was on my Rejuvenator, and I thought the 2000 had one as well…