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- From: naffara@crc.ac.uk (Dr. N.A. Affara)
- Subject: New TOS versions?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.122627.16049@crc.ac.uk>
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- Organization: MRC Human Genome Resource Centre
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 12:26:27 GMT
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- As I understand it, things like NVDI and Warp 9 replace parts of TOS which
- was written in C, with bits written in assembler, which is faster.
-
- Would it be possible to rewrite the whole of TOS in assembler, and would this
- make it faster than NVDI etc?
-
- Just curious,
- Phil
- (E-mail naffara@uk.ac.crc)
-
- --
- Kryten (When Cat says why don't we raise the defensive shields?) "A superlative
- suggestion sir,with only two drawbacks: one,we don't have any defensive shields
- and two,we don't have any defensive shields.I know that,technically,that's only
- one drawback,but it was such a big one I thought I'd mention it twice".
-