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- From: kmacleod@hyperdesk.com (Kenneth Macleod)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Service Pack Results...
- Message-ID: <470@bertha.HyperDesk.com>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 22:54:59 GMT
- References: <1992Nov3.144905.2229@cbnews.cb.att.com> <1992Nov5.102042.16261@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> <1992Nov5.155029.20839@cbnews.cb.att.com>
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- Reply-To: kmacleod@hyperdesk.com (Kenneth Macleod)
- Organization: HyperDesk Corp.
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- In article <1992Nov5.155029.20839@cbnews.cb.att.com>,
- shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com (larry.a.shurr) writes:
- |>
- |> Well... I don't want to argue the point since I agree fundamentally
- that
- |> when data are coming into the window fast enough, then line-by-line
- update
- |> is "wasted motion." However, when the data aren't coming in very
- fast, at
- |> 2400 baud say, then line-by-line may be the way to go.
- Notwithstanding our
- |> possible disagreement on this point, OS/2 windowed VIO & VDM sessions
- are
- |> so slow that it's impractical, even at low data rates.
- |>
- |> Larry
- |> --
- |> Larry A. Shurr (las@cbnmva.att.com or att!cbnmva!las) speaking only
- for myself.
- |> EOR (end-of-ramble)
-
- I remember the 6.149 beta release of OS/2, summer of '91. That ws by
- far and away the most stable version of OS/2 2.0 I have ever seen, even
- for dos sessions. There was no windows and no wps, of course.
-
- At that release, there was a setting (that is still there) so you could
- set up how often you wanted a dos screen to refresh. Back then it
- really worked (I have no idea what it does now, nothing it seems). By
- setting the refresh interval to say one second the screen would only
- update once a second in every mode, including graphics. This was really
- great. Screen updates where even faster than in dos. I really wish they
- would bring that back.
-
- I really can not figure out what IBM has been doing with OS/2 since GA.
- They have had all this time and I can't say things are significantly
- better with the CSD.
-
- Oh well. It is still way better than anything else.
-