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- From: Jonathan Belson <jon@dookie.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: CHIP RAM speed test resul
- Date: Wed, 3 Apr 96 21:53:24 GMT
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- Gregory Hull (ghull@lynx.dac.neu.edu) wrote:
- :
- : Despite all of this amazing hardware, for some reason or another,
- : when I let my P5/100 w/ 32M sit idle for about 5 minutes (which I do as
- : often as I can) and the WindowsNT Maquee screensaver pops up, for some odd
- : the 1 inch high text still goes across the screen 'chop chop chopity chop'
- : rather than smoothly like my poor little A1200 can make it go. Under
- : FreeBSd performance is a little better -- but it still isn't smooth. This
- : is all no a stock Compaq 586/100 w 32MB, PCI Video and SCSI.
- :
- : There is no point in having all that great high performance hardware
- : if it isn't high performing.
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- That's more to do with the Amiga blanker using field syncing and double
- buffering - you lose this when you use a graphics card in your miggy 8^(
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- C-YA
- Jon
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