Hi Per,

>This is the sort of cultural misunderstanding that can occur between softies
>and the other lot: For me "Looking at the ROMs" involves peeking at the
>code, while you, of course mean have a look at the chips! Goes to show that
>the Any-key syndrom can hit you at whatever level of functionality you
>happen to find yourself on, if you catch my drift ;)

:-)

>A sticker on the ROM chips say "SMSQ/E 2.98 patched".

So you have the best SMSQ/E version there currently is for Q40/Q60.
On a Q40, version 2.98 with Richards patch handles qlib code quite nice.

But I have now tried myself, and indeed on 68060 I to need to go back to
writethrough. On 68040 everything is fine with copyback. Weird. 

Unfortunately Tony Tebby has not yet responded my offers to upgrade him to
a Q60. Looks like again we have a problem with our commercial closed-source
OS, and the only person who has the means to look & change, well, ...

Pretty much the same with the �$%&!%$ SLAVEing performance problem, which
kills reasonable multimedia development for SMSQ/E. For TT it must be quite
easy to disable or restrict SLAVEblock usage in his IDE driver. For
everyone else, it is more than a pain.

>PS Got new FDD today and that works fine.

Fine :-)

Bye, Peter


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