#ADSPEED Accellerator
25-Feb-91 06:50:10
Sb: #15921-#ADSPEED Accellerator
Fm: ICD, Inc. 76004,1600
To: Thom Garrison 71511,3052
My opinion may be a little biased, but here goes: AdSpeed just about
doubles the speed on computational things, like fractal generation, ray
tracing, Pagestream screen redraws and printing, etc. Moving large amounts
of data into chip ram, like running animations, will not be improved as
much (only about 35%). It is VERY easy to install. Just open the
computer, remove the (socketed) CPU chip, and plug the AdSpeed board into
this socket. AdSpeed is shipping, be we are horrendously back ordered.
Should be cleared up in two or three weeks. We've hired almost 10 new
people in production, but it takes a while to get them trained enough to
put AdSpeeds together.