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- From: csellers@acorn.co.uk (Carl Sellers)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: Of RISCOS 3 and ARM 2s
- Message-ID: <18366@acorn.co.uk>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 10:40:13 GMT
- References: <1992Sep8.085822.164466@dstos3.dsto.gov.au>
- Sender: csellers@acorn.co.uk
- Organization: Acorn Computers Ltd, Cambridge, England
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- I have two A3000's with RISC OS 3 version 3.10 and 2Mb of memory, other than
- that they are out of the box machines.
-
- The perfomance is very acceptable from these machines, certainly it is
- comparable with the ARM3 upgraded R140 I use as my main machine.
-
- I realise that this goes very much against the grain of other opinions
- expressed on these newsgroups, but there is a very good explanation for this
- which may have been overlooked.
-
- The A3000's are running in mode 12, my "normal" machine is running in mode
- 102 which uses vast amounts of processor time just to update the screen. I
- am therefore prepared to accept a reduction in out and out speed on my
- normal machine for a desktop which I can fit lots of things on.
-
- Most people don't use such abnormal screen modes and so don't have the same
- perception of the speed difference as I. Certainly when I use an AKF17
- monitor I don't even attempt to use such an outragous screen mode, and so
- am quite happy with the speed from an ARM2 based machine with RISC OS 3.
-
- --carl
-