Re: SCSI, DMA, performance: IIfx vs other Macs

2002-04-02 Thread Mark Benson
On Tuesday, April 2, 2002, at 02:33 AM, Robert Gray wrote: Ah, yes. The high performance 6502 like I have in my pre-Macintosh Atari 800? ;-)The speed gain was from relieving the CPU of IO housekeeping. The 6502 also ran both the most successful '2nd generation' personal computers, the

Re: SCSI, DMA, performance: IIfx vs other Macs

2002-04-02 Thread Cameron Kaiser
Ah, yes. The high performance 6502 like I have in my pre-Macintosh Atari 800? ;-)The speed gain was from relieving the CPU of IO housekeeping. The 6502 also ran both the most successful '2nd generation' personal computers, the BBC Mirco (mostly successful in UK and Austrailia)

Re: SCSI, DMA, performance: IIfx vs other Macs.

2002-04-01 Thread Marten van de Kraats
Now, Question of the day: What other Macs that does have this DMA supported and high performance SCSI chipsets besides this IIfx? Didn't the 900 and 950 have similar stuff on board? And there might be some other 68040 model that I'm forgetting about right now. Marten

Re: SCSI, DMA, performance: IIfx vs other Macs.

2002-03-31 Thread jpero
At 19:22 + on 31/03/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, Question of the day: What other Macs that does have this DMA supported and high performance SCSI chipsets besides this IIfx? None of them, AFAIK. Throws up hands and exclaims: that makes sense! Very strange for apple to hobble

Re: SCSI, DMA, performance: IIfx vs other Macs.

2002-03-31 Thread the pickle
At 19:49 + on 31/03/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a utility to copy ROM to RAM for most Macs including this IIfx? Peecees are by default on quality 386 boards and 486 by There was one that would do it for PPCs, but I don't think anyone ever wrote a 68K version, and I have my

ROM shadowing Re: SCSI, DMA, performance: IIfx vs other Macs.

2002-03-31 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a utility to copy ROM to RAM for most Macs including this IIfx? Peecees are by default on quality 386 boards and 486 by default onwards. Would be nice to do this also for video card firmware shadowed to ram. Actually in recent years the trend