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- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 92 20:00:04 -0800
- From: David_Scott@f514.n202.z1.fidonet.org
- Subject: Re: VIDEO_MODE_RESTRICTI
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- ML>In article <1992Dec17.145356.27712@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
- ML>mlord@bmers63.bnr.ca (Mark Lord) writes:
- ML>>In article <1992Dec17.013514.2772@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- ML>>wkn@leland.Stanford.EDU (Ken Neighbors) writes:
- ML>>>I thought I'd set VIDEO_MODE_RESTRICTION to CGA so that I could
- get
- ML>>>96K more of memory for one of my text only DOS apps. It now runs
- ML>>>twice as slow (or half as fast :)
- ML>>>
- ML>>>Here's some data:
- ML>>>restriction mem time to run
- ML>>>NONE 655360 16 seconds
- ML>>>CGA 753664 33 seconds
- ML>>>MONO 720896 33 seconds
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- Why does CGA give more available memory than MONO? I thought it'd be
- the other way.
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- David Scott
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