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- From: dhesi@rahul.net (Rahul Dhesi)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: Sun vs. Solbourne console speed
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- Date: 12 Dec 92 10:24:53 GMT
- References: <1992Dec10.214721.3407@cis.uab.edu> <1992Dec10.221357.3831@boingo.med.jhu.edu> <15848@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
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- In <15848@auspex-gw.auspex.com> guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
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- >The OPEN PROM monitor's screen-painting code is FORTH code, and the
- >FORTH interpreter, on some of the machines with OPEN PROM monitors, is
- >executed either out of ROM or out of RAM that's mapped non-cacheable, I
- >forget which. In any case, that means the screen-painting code isn't
- >going to run screamingly fast.
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- This explain *how* Sun made the console driver slow, but not *why*.
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- Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net>
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