Possible to speed up I/O subsystem of 5150?

Jim Leonard trixter at oldskool.org
Thu Dec 16 00:26:47 CST 2004


9000 VAX wrote:

> XT's do not have more than 640K memory, thus SMARTDRV is not very useful.

Moreso, I am streaming continuously off of disk in my application, so caching 
provides no benefit whatsoever (data is read only once, not re-read lots of times).

I could really use an EMS board, though -- I could pre-load my data into it...
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