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- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
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- Subject: Re: Why is initial screen I/O so slow? (=NeWS!)
- Message-ID: <14010@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 18:50:16 GMT
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- >I thought he was refering to the appaling scrolling that happens if the Sun
- >machine is just in text mode (not in Open Windows etc)
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- Note that it's not a "text mode" in the sense of the "text mode" that
- PClone screens, as far as I know, have; there's no hardware character
- generator - the PROM code works with bitmapped fonts.
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