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- From: beaurega@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (Denis Beauregard)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Re: BIOS SPEED FOR VIDEO WRITES
- Message-ID: <BtEtB5.DsL@ireq.hydro.qc.ca>
- Date: 22 Aug 92 23:59:29 GMT
- References: <1992Aug20.131829.5606@tc.cornell.edu>
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- Organization: Institut de recherche d'Hydro-Quebec, Varennes, Canada
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- In article <1992Aug20.131829.5606@tc.cornell.edu> homer@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Homer Smith) writes:
- >
- > On my 386/33 with Trident 8900 chip the program takes 1:10
- >minutes.
- >
- > On my 486/33 with identical video board the program takes 11:46
- >minutes.
- >
- > Could someone please give me a hint why the 486 is 11 times
- >slower than the 386.
- >
- > Using another program that did a simple INC AX,1 repeatedly,
- >the 486 was 2.8 times faster than the 386.
- >
- > Homer
-
- On my 386/22 (yup, a 20 MHz boosted to 22 MHz), the Norton index is
- 50% higher in the Turbo mode, but the display output in DOS change
- in some circumstances into a very slow (like a 300 baud teletype) writing.
-
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