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#2.0 ROM Release Info

    06-Nov-91 12:10:10
Fm: Gregory B. Tibbs 73767,456
To: Andy Finkel 70007,4173
The A3000/030 gets 30% better results than the 040, and write through mode of the 040 is faster than copyback mode. I wasn't knocking diskspeed, I think it is a great program, just that I hadn't spent the time trying to see what is the culprit. BTW are you sure you are not talking about buffers for the device carefully not cached or actually processor caches? I guess you would want both to minimize CPU influencing the results. -Greg The 040 has additional wait states than the 030, but the fact that write through mode is faster than copyback mode baffles me: the CPU and CPU/ram speed is a constant.