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- From: mlord@bmers63.bnr.ca (Mark Lord)
- Subject: Re: VIDEO_MODE_RESTRICTION slows down DOS box
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.145356.27712@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
- Keywords: VIDEO_MODE_RESTRICTION
- Sender: news@bmerh85.bnr.ca (Usenet News)
- Organization: BNR, Ottawa, Canada
- References: <1992Dec17.013514.2772@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 14:53:56 GMT
- Lines: 15
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- In article <1992Dec17.013514.2772@leland.Stanford.EDU> wkn@leland.Stanford.EDU (Ken Neighbors) writes:
- >I thought I'd set VIDEO_MODE_RESTRICTION to CGA so that I could get
- >96K more of memory for one of my text only DOS apps. It now runs
- >twice as slow (or half as fast :)
- >
- >Here's some data:
- >restriction mem time to run
- >NONE 655360 16 seconds
- >CGA 753664 33 seconds
- >MONO 720896 33 seconds
-
- Congratulations. At least you can use this setting (winos231 beta pack).
-
- With the stock OS/2 2.0 + SPP, this option has no effect at all on
- the memory available to DOS. It does work if the SPP has *not* been installed.
-