On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, [ISO-8859-1] Alexander Oberd=F6rster wrote:
> Thanks. Thats the kind of thing I wanted to know.
>
> Do you also have info about the PCMCIA performance of the Voyager? I
> suspect that won't be on par with today's chipsets, too -- I've heard
> 10-15 KB/s for transmissions to and from ATAPI Memory Cards. iPaqs
> should be a lot faster than that.
There are some simple programs that benchmark performance of Flash cards
inserted in the Newton. I don't recall the exact numbers, but someone here
can post their results.
The PCMCIA performance of the Newton will be lower than the iPaq as the
SA-1110 also integrates a PCMCIA controller vs. the SA-110 having to talk
to the Voyager parts.
The PCMCIA interface on the SA-1110 is essentially another chip select off
the Static RAM interface built-in to the processor. As a result,
additional bus cycles aren't required to transfer data to/from the CPU.
The PCMCIA interface on the SA-1110 however does not support any kind of
DMA.
> Ah, and some numbers about the throughput of the Newton's TCP/IP stack
> would also be cool.
I think this is a more complicated problem as the amount of free-heap and
other software centric issues come into play.
Thanks,
Speedy2.
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