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AdSpeed comments?

    17-Oct-93 00:29:31
Sb: AdSpeed comments?
Fm: Peter Cooke 71541,155
To: MARK R WIRTZ 72703,1214
I'll answer the second question first: I didn't go for an '030 because I don't want to pour any more money into this system than I need to (saving up for a 1200 with '030/040 if possible), and the Supra seemed to offer the best performance for the dollar. I'm currently running an A500 with the solder trace cut for 1 meg of CHIP, using an ICD AdRam board (have never had any problem with their stuff, highly recommended) with 4 Megs (4.5 total, 3.5 Fast). The A570 CD add-on is another "must buy" for the system, I'm going to be using Parnet to allow my 1200 to use it until I can afford an NEC SCSI-2 external. I have found that if Idon't activate the upper 2 megs of ram, I can boot up with the caching circuitry enabled (it makes for a _major_ difference in performance), otherwise it hangs up during the memory assigning process. All things considered, it has been a very good (and final) addition to the system, and will tide me over for these next few months until my second "integrated keyboard" graces the table.