Date   : Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:58:49 +0200
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: Units of memory, Was: Master Ethernet upgrade

Rob wrote:

 > Off, you get a single CPU that runs at twice the speed.  On, you
 > apparently get two processors ..  I've never quite worked out which
 > mode is best,

That's the thing - with Windows being a multitasking OS, running 
Thunderbird Portable, Firefox, WinAmp... would it be better thus to have 
a faster single CPU, or a slower split-personality CPU?


> Nowaways, I found it too slow for me to run BeebEm on, even on a clean
 > install of Win2K.

That's the thing... Then, on Azumi BeebEm (just installed it) runs at 1x 
so I'm not sure if it is throttling back or if that's the best an HT 
1.6GHz lump can achieve?
At least RedSquirrel runs sort-of like a real RiscPC. It was somewhat 
less comfy on a 450MHz box! Sadly the !SICK that I have crashes halfway 
through benchmarking so I can't see how it measures up against real 
hardware...


Best wishes,

Rick.

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