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Dr Alan Gray <Alan.Gray@argonet.co.uk> wrote:

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> At the risk of starting a "my RAM disc is faster than yours", I'm dismayed
> that mine is so much slower...
>
> RiscPC600 (early) + S/A, with different versions of PowerTec's !Speed and
> a 6MB RAM disc:-
>
>   Size=512KB Speed=10666KB & 16114KB/s ... using v1.07
>
>   Size=512KB Speed=10687KB & 16114KB   ... using v1.41
>
> As it is apparently single-tasking, why should mine be so much slower? I
> wonder what version of !Speed you are using.
>
> And also, incidentally, with what I thought was a 16MB/sec bus speed to 
> RAM, why is yours so fast!

My version of !Speed is 1.04 (23 Oct 1995), and the speed tests were
performed on a RiscPC 700. Using my work's RiscPC 600 I obtain the following
result...

  Size=512KB Speed=17655KB & 16516KB/s

I don't know why there should be a difference... perhaps my version of
!Speed is faulty. You wouldn't like to bundle your version 1.41 into a
!Spark archive and e-mail it to me, would you? I'm sure we can't be
breaching any copyright if I've legitimately bought the original!

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