by skipper1947 » Mon Jan 11, 2016 6:09 pm
Well, if anybody is interested, I did a little test using my original CFFA card and a ram drive. The ram drive would typically be used to load in program modules as needed, so is basically a read-only device.
For the test, I loaded a text file into both. The file contained 662 lines of text. I then ran a little search utility which reads in each line in sequence and checks it for the text being searched for. This was on an non-accelerated IIe.
It took 77 seconds to read each line in the ram drive, and 78 seconds reading from the CFFA card. I don't know how the original CFFA card will compare with the new (just ordered) CFFA3000, but I suspect the CFFA3000 will not be any slower. :)
So, based on this, I think it is not worth the hassle of the ram drive (and I could use the slot).
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