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In <C16EB9.EG3@ecf.toronto.edu>, AL RASHID SHAHIR writes:
[Falcon RULEZ D00D!!!!1! stuff deleted...]
> Sorry, but I played around with a 7 month old developer Falcon, the other day
> and I never noticed this. I'm not saying that you're lying but maybe the
> program sucked or something? BTW, I played with it for about 5-6 hrs and never
> experienced drastic cuts in speed..In fact, speed remained pretty constant!

I guess you didn't try using one of the nice 16-bit colour modes, eh? 
Howard Chu (You know, great ST developer type?  Ports GNU C for fun?)
reported that the system ran about 50% of normal speed in the
large/many-coloured modes.

> Utterly nonsensical, eh? My what a presumptious attitude! In fact, I am on 
> a IRIS 4D/380S Silicon Graphix system (running IRIX 4.0.5) network with SUN
> terminals at the moment. It's pretty fast :8 33Mhz Mips processors. In fact,
> I'm typing this up right now!! In fact, I use it EVERYDAY!! And do you know
> what?? It MULTITASKS!! And I frequently put windows on top of each other!
> There! Happy? Sheesh.

Next you're going to tell us there's a VGA monitor hooked up to it,
right?  Only a bozo would use ~700x~500 on an IRIS.
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Chris Herborth
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