• BIU ?

    From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to Kevin Bowling on Fri Dec 1 18:59:28 2023
    https://www.ardent-tool.com/tech/ASIC_Info.html#71G0438

    The Lacuna and Reply use BIUs, The Reply 60/80 also actually has an SSC.

    _MAYBE_ the inclusion of a BIU turbo-diddles the performance of the 9-K?

    A weg to investigate this angle would be to use a Type 3 ["M"] or a Type
    4 ["N"] complex, both of which do not have a BIU.

    Kevin Bowling wrote:

    That the Lacuna and Reply perform so low is disappointing, but maybe
    there's a reason why IBM did not sell this adapter to PS/2 users - or
    maybe we will find a magic switch to make the card operate faster.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to Louis Ohland on Fri Dec 1 21:38:47 2023
    Another factoid, the Lacuna and Reply boards use IDE.

    Even _IF_ the BIU / IDE thing is a lead weight, I don't expect a non-IDE
    / non-BIU system to hit 10MB/s...

    So even though Albert Einstein breathed air like I do, that correlation
    does not mean that we are both geniuses...

    Louis Ohland wrote:
    https://www.ardent-tool.com/tech/ASIC_Info.html#71G0438

    The Lacuna and Reply use BIUs, The Reply 60/80 also actually has an SSC.

    _MAYBE_ the inclusion of a BIU turbo-diddles the performance of the 9-K?

    A weg to investigate this angle would be to use a Type 3 ["M"] or a Type
    4 ["N"] complex, both of which do not have a BIU.

    Kevin Bowling wrote:

    That the Lacuna and Reply perform so low is disappointing, but maybe
    there's a reason why IBM did not sell this adapter to PS/2 users - or
    maybe we will find a magic switch to make the card operate faster.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)