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17. DRAM page mode

I devote some attention to the issue of dynamic RAM page mode access. Page mode is much quicker than a fully random access. In page mode, the row address of the memory location is locked, and columns read from that same row.

I feel that if I use page mode wherever possible, my CPU will run twice as fast as it would otherwise, because I can get my instructions twice as quickly.