Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!lll-winken!sun-barr!rutgers!njin!limonce From: limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: It looks like he's at it again! Summary: just a joke, kids! (Though, wouldn't it be great...) Message-ID: Date: 25 Jul 90 02:24:51 GMT References: <1990Jul12.012730.4248@Stardent.COM> <64044@sgi.sgi.com> <13392@cbmvax.commodore.com> <_YV4Y9A@ggpc2.ferranti.com> Organization: Drew University/NJIN Lines: 25 In article <_YV4Y9A@ggpc2.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes: > In article <13392@cbmvax.commodore.com>, jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) writes: > > WordPerfect is 100% written in assembler for speed. > > What does it need that speed for? Like all editors, it's almost 100% I/O > bound on the user inetrface. That's because most (most!) of todays machines have video systems that introduce a HUGE number of wait-states for each write to video memory. Such is done because of various design decisions made by the system engineers when they are planning the COMPupter ARCHitecture... which is something that isn't being discussed much around here. Semi-seriously, Tom P.S. Before you ask me via email: No, I don't claim to be the net.police and yes, I do know how to operate a kill file. Let me ask YOU a question: Did you read the "Summary:" line? -- tlimonce@drew.edu Tom Limoncelli +1 201 408 5389 tlimonce@drew.uucp tlimonce@drew.Bitnet My new philosophy on life: limonce@pilot.njin.net "Vogue 'til you puke"