🚀 go-pugleaf

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

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