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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Elvis is Dead
Message-ID: <=HE6:37@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: 14 Oct 90 02:32:02 GMT
References: <1442@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <1442@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA> userBARD@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA (Barry Ard) writes:
> besides me find it slooooowwww. It is using bios ints for all screen i/o
> which is robust but too slow for me. Has anyone made any modifications
> so that all screen i/o is done directly to video memory. I'm sure

Get a FAST ansi.sys, and replace tinytcap.c with the termlib I recently
posted to alt.sources. On most PCs a fast ansi.sys is near as fast as direct
screen writes, and blows the BIOS out of the water.
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