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- Path: sparky!uunet!indetech!cirrus!dhesi
- From: dhesi@cirrus.com (Rahul Dhesi)
- Subject: Re: Sun vs. Solbourne console speed
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.002452.18004@cirrus.com>
- Sender: news@cirrus.com
- Organization: Cirrus Logic Inc.
- References: <1992Dec10.221357.3831@boingo.med.jhu.edu> <15848@auspex-gw.auspex.com> <Bz569H.4Cx@rahul.net> <15864@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
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- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 00:24:52 GMT
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- In <15864@auspex-gw.auspex.com> guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
-
- >OK. The *why* is that, as I understand it, they fucked up and forgot to
- >make the interpreter cacheable.
-
- It appears that console speed has always been slow (even in the Sun-3
- series) and has gotten worse over the years. I don't know of any
- workstation in the Sun-3 and Sun-4 series with a console fast enough
- for use without a windowing system. The 3/50 and 3/60 are decent but
- their windowing systems are still much faster than the raw console. So
- a single design bug doesn't explain it.
-
- Also, there is no reason why the Forth interpreter must drive the
- console after booting. There could be an optional driver in /vmunix,
- and it could be made a configuration option.
-
- So I think the slow console is not due to accident, but due to design.
- Which still leaves the question of: Why?
- --
- Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@cirrus.com>
- also: dhesi@rahul.net
-