Re: 68040 MMU and FastROM.

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From: Martin Read
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 00:00

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Keith Blakemore-Noble (keith@pfloyd.demon.co.uk) wrote:

: A bizzare thing happened at work yesterday.  I came back to my desk after
: dinner, and found that my A4000 had lost its 030/882 card, and in its place
: fully-fledged 68040 card had appeared.

 [snip]

: On a relentless quest to squeeze every last drop of performance out of my
: beast, I decided to try moving Kickstart to fast RAM, using the 'CPU FastROM'
: command.

I've never tried this as I thought Kickstart was in 32 bit ROM anyway.
Whats the advantage of moving it into RAM  and how much RAM does it
use ?

                     Cheers

                              Martin


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