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- From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
- Subject: Re: 2.1b: Scrolling in CLI slooow ...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.000658.27980@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
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- Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 00:06:58 GMT
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- Bruce Dubbs (bdubbs@cs.tamu.edu) wrote:
- > In article <93021.115710RONY@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at> FLATSCHER Rony <RONY@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at> writes:
- > |Scrolling in command-line-windows being it DOS or OS/2 windows is
- > |still ***unacceptably*** slow (on a 486 25/50 MHz).
-
- > Hmm. How fast do you want it to go? I just did a quick test and got
- > about 20 lines/sec. Too fast to read certainly, but I can just barely
- > tell whats scrolling by at that speed. Faster scrolling would be
- > detrimental. Now this doesn't mean paging. I used the GNU cat *.c
- > command to check it out in my other window.
-
- > I'm using the standard VGA drivers on GA+SP. I did try the 800x600
- > mode for my ET4000 based card and found it too slow, but I'll use VGA
- > until I get a new 17" monitor. (Actually, I'm waiting for the XGA-2
- > cards for ISA to come down a bit in price too.)
-
- AHAH! I suppose 640x480x16 would be pretty quick but with a 486 you'd
- expect to get more than 2 lines a second in 800x600x256
-
- > --
- > Bruce Dubbs | Oxymorons of note:
- > bdubbs@neuron.tamu.edu | Honest Politician, Political Science,
- > | Scrupulous Lawyer
-
- --
- Tom J Parry.
- Your reality is a figment of my imagination.
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