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- From: mrbill@leland.Stanford.EDU (William Bowen)
- Subject: Re: Text scroll benchmark
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.163846.19537@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Keywords: text scroll benchmark window
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
- References: <14gnjd+.jps@netcom.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 16:38:46 GMT
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- In article <14gnjd+.jps@netcom.com> jps@netcom.com (John Serafin) writes:
- >
- >I am proposing a text scrolling benchmark. Although most computers can
- >scroll text much faster than it is possible to read, scrolling delay can
- >be quite objectionable during interactive modem sessions. Scrolling text
- >in a window in a GUI environment can take up so much CPU time that full
- >modem throughput is not realized.
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- Try Texas Instruments' free Wintach windows benchmark program available at
- ftp.cica.indiana.edu. It has tests for paint, spreadsheet, text and CAD video
- performance, and gives comparisons to TIGA 34010 and 34020, 8514, Tseng and
- standard VGA run on a 386DX-20. It appears to test quite realistically and
- gives reasonable results. I've tested Paradise and Tseng frame buffers and
- a 34010 based board and got results consistent with expectations. I'd
- definitely recommend the use of either an accelerated or coprocessed video
- board for any GUI user. The improvement in performance is well worth the cost.
- In fact, if you're using a 386DX and considering upgrading to a 486 for
- improved windows performance, spend the money on an accelerated video card
- instead. You'll realize a much greater performance benefit.
-
- Regards,
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- Bill
- mrbill@leland.stanford.edu
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