noticed that Sonnet recommends not interweaving the RAM and states in their documentation that any speed lost will more than be made up in the processor upgrade? I am assuming that they are saying this because of the new buss in the upgrade.
The bigger the speed difference (the larger the "multiplier") between the memory bus and the CPU,
1) the trickier it is to keep things synchronized (timed smoothly) and
2) the more difficult it is to keep the CPU busy (not enuf data).
At some point, it pays to forgo the one optimization (memory interleaving) just to get the extra raw CPU speed. pays = engineering difficulty & component cost.
Bigger, better, faster, more.
"Who in their right mind would ever need more than 640k of RAM!?" -- Bill Gates, 1981
- Dan.
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