5 Oct
2003
5 Oct
'03
4 p.m.
My indefatigable Macintosh IIci NetBSD server got defatigable and its cache
card blew (diagnosis made by the fact that when the cache card was pulled, it
suddenly could boot again). Fortunately, I had *one* *more* *card* in stock,
but between the several IIcis I have running, I'm now totally out in case this
happens again. Anyone going to VCF6 that has a few they could be talked/dealed
into parting with?
Thanks!
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5 Oct
5 Oct
4:56 p.m.
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
My indefatigable Macintosh IIci NetBSD server got
defatigable and its cache
card blew (diagnosis made by the fact that when the cache card was pulled, it
suddenly could boot again). Fortunately, I had *one* *more* *card* in stock,
but between the several IIcis I have running, I'm now totally out in case this
happens again. Anyone going to VCF6 that has a few they could be talked/dealed
into parting with?
You might also want to post this request to the VCF BBS:
http://www.vintage.org/2003/main/bbs.php?directive=index:VCF60:TRADE:0
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9:46 p.m.
My indefatigable Macintosh IIci NetBSD server got
defatigable and its cache
card blew (diagnosis made by the fact that when the cache card was pulled, it
OK, what exactly is a "Cache Card"? I would guess that it's CPU cache on a
card of some sort? Is this something limited to the IIci, or do other models in the II
series use it?
Zane
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10:42 p.m.
My
indefatigable Macintosh IIci NetBSD server got defatigable and its cache
card blew (diagnosis made by the fact that when the cache card was pulled,
OK, what exactly is a "Cache Card"? I would guess that it's CPU cache on
a
card of some sort? Is this something limited to the IIci, or do other
models in the II series use it? 
6 Oct
6 Oct
2:47 a.m.
If I remember the benchmark results correctly, the extra 32k speeds up video
by a few percent, and "Scientific" operations (IE floating point math) by a
few tens of percentage points.
I've got a 128k cache card and it speeds up everything by quite a bit.
Probably has something to do with the built-in video getting sped up.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cameron Kaiser" <spectre(a)floodgap.com
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 6:42 AM
Subject: Re: Need IIci cache cards
> OK, what exactly is a "Cache Card"? I would guess that it's CPU
cache on a
and
> > My indefatigable Macintosh IIci NetBSD
server got defatigable and its
cache
> > card blew (diagnosis made by the fact that
when the cache card was
pulled,
card of some
sort? Is this something limited to the IIci, or do other
models in the II series use it?
AFAIK it's specific to the IIci. It goes in the PDS slot and is 32K of L1
cache for the '030 (basically equivalent to the L1 that the '040 has built
in). The performance upgrade is only moderate, but definitely noticible, it's a cheap and almost painless way to get more
juice out of a IIci.
Later releases of the IIci had the cache card included (it was an option
on
earlier releases).
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8:57 a.m.
At 07:47 AM 10/6/03, you wrote:
If I remember the benchmark results correctly, the
extra 32k speeds up video
by a few percent, and "Scientific" operations (IE floating point math) by a
few tens of percentage points.
I've got a 128k cache card and it speeds up everything by quite a bit.
Probably has something to do with the built-in video getting sped up.
I have a cache card in my IICX :) ok, so it's an Diimo accellerator with
cache on it on an adaptor :) but it speeds everything WAY up... 50 Mhz 030 :)
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