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From: toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Stellar 7 re-release
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Date: 19 Dec 90 09:51:07 GMT
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rhyde@koufax.ucr.edu (randy hyde) writes:

>  Imagine how slow the GS would operate
>if everyone used the (ugh!) text toolkit for all character I/O to the
>screen.  Don't believe me, try writing text based applications in
>an ORCA language running under APW.  It's quite slow as well.

Not if you use the FASTEXT init. Paul Elseth wrote it, it patches out some
of the Text Tools routines to write directly to the screen instead of calling
the firmware.

On an unaccelerated GS, it makes the ORCA editor reasonable. With a Zip added
it's great.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu