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- From: kimba@gnh-cathouse.cts.com (Kim Brennan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: TWGS
- Message-ID: <m0nFJb0-0000ShC@crash.cts.com>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 08:49:49 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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- Organization: The Internet
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- X-Unparsable-Date: Fri Jan 22 93 at 00:37:45 (EST)
-
- > RamFASTs are so problem prone and DONT work with everything. It's
- > being constantly updated and that's WHY I am NOT buying one. It might make
- > your systems go FAST but I don't want to continually update Rev.C, Rev D, Rev
- > E etc paying 100$ or so every time.. here with the Apple II High Speed
- > SCSI, EVERYTHING works with it. Even third-party stuff. ZIPs work with it.
- > TWGS's should work with it since AE followed APple's guidelines. ANY SCSI
- > device SHOULD work. RamFAST was last updated because it couldnt read in
- > flopticals.. how sad.
-
- SURE AE followed Apple's guidelines! <insert heavy sarcasm> Tell that to my
- power supply.
-
- > I've been to people's houses who have RamFASTs and I can tell you they're
- > only maybe .5 percent faster than my APple II HS SCSI Card.. I'm not
- > justifying purchasing one right now just to make it that much faster. And
- > ZIPs are better than TWGS's, IMHO.
-
- You have never run any heavy disk intensive applications then, which is where
- the RamFAST shines. I run a BBS (EBBS, which is ProDOS 8 based) and the
- RamFast makes WORLD of difference. On my OTHER GS (which also has a RamFAST) I
- do occassional programming in Orca/M/C/Pascal. Again, having that RamFAST
- helps file access QUITE a bit more .5 percent.
-
- And, yes, I do have another computer for comparison purposes. That's the GS I
- use at work which is only running the Apple Hi Speed SCSI card. It is
- NOTICABLY slower in launching applications and Transproging from application
- to application.
-
- I've used caching SCSI controllers almost from the beginning (beginning with
- the MultiKache) cause I was NEVER able to get Apple's original SCSI card to
- work with ANY of my hard drives. At least the Apple High Speed SCSI does work.
-
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