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- From: tmo@phoenix.oulu.fi (Tero Molander)
- Subject: Re: The FALCON - too slow ??
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.113239.12331@ousrvr.oulu.fi>
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- Organization: University of Oulu, Finland
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- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 11:32:39 GMT
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- Ricardo Hernandez (raist@rmece02.upr.clu.edu) wrote:
- : In article <1dprp3INN9rg@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, aa399@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Len Stys) writes:
- : |>
- : |> In a previous article, cdw@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Christopher Walton) says:
- : |>
- : |> >A friend yesturday said he'd seen the FALCON in Dusseldoff and the screen scrolling
- : |> >in 'true colour' mode was like glue. I haven't actually seen a falcon yet but I
- : |> >have read most articles on it and this wasn't mentioned. Since he owns a TT
- : |> >and is likely to be biased, can anyone else set my mind at rest ???
- : |> >
- : |> >Thanks - Chris (cdw@dcs.ed.ac.uk)
- : |>
- : |> Maybe the software made it slow?
- : |>
- : It shall be slow... it is more memory to move + CPU memory contention
- : since the video bus is the same as the cpu bus to memory.
- :
- : - Raist
- :
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- Scrolling should not be a problem. Falcon030 has hardware scrolling! That is
- useless with desktop windows though BUT true colour mode is not supported in
- desktop so the problem is just that the programmer did not make use of it!
- Nobody used it on STe so that is nothing new. So it is definitely software
- that made it slow.
-
- -- Tero --
-