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- From: jh@cadre.com (Joe Hartley)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Subject: Re: Why is initial screen I/O so slow? (=Ne
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.154929.25466@fripp.ri.cadre.com>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 15:49:29 GMT
- Article-I.D.: fripp.1992Aug12.154929.25466
- References: <1992Aug12.141157.2277@lsl.co.uk>
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- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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- In article 2277@lsl.co.uk, snail@lsl.co.uk () writes:
- >In article <1992Aug10.170900.6655@nenufar.saclay.cea.fr>, basile@soleil.serma.cea.fr (Basile STARYNKEVITCH) writes:
- >> In article <1992Aug10.123858.15682@fel.tno.nl>,
- >> qb7g6@fel.tno.nl (Maarten Landzaat) writes in comp.sys.sun.misc:
- >> |> Can anybody explain the technical or marketing reasons why the initial
- >> |> screen I/O on any Sun is so terribly slow? >>
- >> I suppose Maarten is talking about the (lot of) time it takes to start
- >> an OpenWindow session
- >
- >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) and behaves as if in
- >a terminal (almost). The scrolling is almost as slow as a ZX81 (made by Clive
- >Sinclair in 1981, based on a Z80 and had 1K RAM, marketed in the States by
- >Timex).
-
- Hey, I had (and still do, somewhere) a ZX81, and I believe that its text
- scrolling was faster than the console I/o on my Sun IPC!
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