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From: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath)
Newsgroups: net.micro.apple
Subject: Re: 80-column on the Apple ][
Message-ID: <2931@reed.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 29-Mar-86 21:34:05 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 29 21:34:05 1986
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In article <190@bsdpkh.UUCP> heff@bsdpkh.UUCP (Paul K Heffner) writes:
>unacceptably slow response of the cards available. The situation
>seems to be just as bad on the ][e (and to me this is inexcusable
>considering the 80-vid on the ][e is completely memory mapped and
>should be extermely fast!!). 
>
>					Paul Heffner

Well, that's true of the old //e.  It was so slow because it did one
bank of the screen at a time.  It had problems with 1200 baud modems,
also.  The new //e is worth the upgrade price just for the faster
scrolling.

Sean Kamath
ihnp4!tektronix!reed!kamath