dce@sony.com (David Elliott) (10/25/89)
I've been thinking about buying a CPU cache card for my Mac II for
a while. The MacSprint II card has been around the longest, and
since it is known to handle the PMMU now, I was seriously
considering buying one. Then, I saw an ad for Dove's new Racer
cache card, and it was around $50 less than MacSprint.
Is Racer PMMU-compatible? Also, the last time I asked (about MacSprint),
the general concensus was that a few programs might break with it,
but it would be rare. Would Racer be better, worse, or the same?
Are either of these cards going to be trouble when System 7.0 comes
out? Has Apple worked with these cards, or at least given Dove and
Orchid advanced releases to assure compatibility?
Also, I've seen an ad (from MacProducts, USA, I think) for a SCSI cache
card for something like $200-300, but there's no other information. Is
this a NuBus card? For what range of disk access speeds is it effective?
How much software will it break?
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