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- From: wcn@cs.brown.edu (Wen-Chun Ni)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 Wish List
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.063203.13560@cs.brown.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.brown.edu
- Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
- References: <1993Jan23.233249.15201@news.columbia.edu> <enk2.83.727847427@po.cwru.edu> <1993Jan24.041403.27929@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 06:32:03 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan24.041403.27929@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >In article <enk2.83.727847427@po.cwru.edu> enk2@po.cwru.edu (Erik Kovach) writes:
- >
- >>9. Improved DOS and OS/2 windowed session speed in 8-bit color. (may be the
- >> the drivers limitations, tho)
- >
- >The jump scrolling would help, naturally.
- >
-
- No. Basically, I think the SVGA driver for Tseng chips is too slow. The
- same card under Linux+X-Windows is much faster in video scrolling,
- even I turn off the jump scroll feature in X-terms. The old X386 driver
- for ET?000 chips used to be criticized as awfully slow, like what I
- see in OS/2 2.0+SP. After a guy in UT Austin rewrote the driver
- in assembly, the card gives you the performance of Sparc.
-
- In my opinion, IBM (or the video card vendors) should look into the
- cards carefully in order to take full advantage of the cards. I can't
- program under WPS using the Windowed OS/2 + Emacs. It's rather painful
- to switch the monitor from full screen to WPS (and the click of my
- Sony monitor really scares me a lot).
-
-
-
- Wen-Chun Ni, wcn@cs.brown.edu
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