terry.smallwood@canremote.uucp (TERRY SMALLWOOD) (02/15/90)
Hi Steve, I have the 2630 board installed and working (finally - after two bouts with shorts due to grease under the chip sockets) and am VERY pleased with its operation. I've already added the extra 2Mb of fast RAM and am getting about 7.6 MIPS out of the board. In real world terms that means a significant increase in such things as (hard) disk I/O speed (more than double) and a more than remarkable decrease in compile and render times. Quite often I am downloading using BaudBandit, Zipping with PKAzip, and reading files at the same time and I'd like to see someone without an accelerator do all that without going mad. In going from a 2620 to a 2630 I found that more programs worked rather than fewer (I think C= learned a few things from their '020 board). As an example Populous (which wouldn't even work with the 2620 disabled) now works flawlessly. Hope this helps. Terry --- * Via ProDoor 3.2aR