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From: karln@uunet.uu.net
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: ISC 3.2/harddisk & floppy problems
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.140912.476@uunet.uu.net>
Date: 17 Jun 91 14:09:12 GMT
References: <113@odiehh.hanse.de> <1991Jun14.153823.23334@uunet.uu.net> <1991Jun15.161431.395@jwt.UUCP>
Reply-To: karln@karln.UUCP ()
Organization: Sam76 - Pennington NJ
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In article <1991Jun15.161431.395@jwt.UUCP> john@jwt.UUCP (John Temples) writes:
>In article <1991Jun14.153823.23334@uunet.uu.net> karln@karln.UUCP () writes:
>[ Putting the VGA BIOS in 8-bit mode hurt X performance; shadowing the BIOS
>  brought performance back up. ]
>
>I don't see how anything to do with the VGA BIOS or shadow RAM could affect
>your UNIX performance.
>-- 

	I do not see how it would make any _noticeable_ difference for
UNIX either. The statement was 'X' performance, as in x11perf.
	
	With the VGA BIOS non shadowed/in 8 bit mode, I was getting
~20,000 -dot per second. With the VGA BIOS shadowed or in 16 bit mode
I am getting ~50,000 -dots per second.

	Hope this helps :-)

					Karl.


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