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Ian D. Gay (gay@selkirk.sfu.ca) wrote:
: oppedahl@panix.com (Carl Oppedahl) writes:
: [stuff]
: >So can someone tell me who is to blame?  Is WordPerfect to blame
: >for writing a particularly inefficient VESA driver for its 6.0b
: >for DOS? 
:  Yes, the VESA driver is a piece of crap. My Tseng board scrolls 3 
: times as fast with the Tseng driver as with the VESA driver.
My experience is the same.  For WP 60b to fly, the driver needs to be 
optimized to take advantage of the built-in features of the card.  The
Windows drivers do this, the VESA DOS driver doesn't.
You might **try** some other driver for the "S3 Vision964" chip set.
Also, back off to 16 colors instead of 256.
On my XPS P90, the Windows WordPerfect 6 seems to beat the DOS WordPerfect 6.  
Clearly a giant step backwards.

And, even though Novell now owns WP, don't ask them for help with your 
network installation.  They refer you to Novell !    How the mighty have fallen.

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