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From: daveh@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
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Subject: Re: MicroEMACS 3.7 response
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Date: Thu, 14-Aug-86 13:28:09 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 14 13:28:09 1986
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> [food for line eater]
> 
> I have mounted MicroEMACS 3.7 on my PC compatible using Lattice 2.14. I
> had no problems, except I had to use large code and large data model to
> get it to fit.
> 
> My problem is that response to some commands (e.g. PgDn) is distinctly
> soggy. Is this true of all versions? just the PC version? Lattice C versions?
> 
> My machine is an 8086 based PC compatible, fitted with a NEC V30 and
> running at the normal clock speed of 4.77 MHz.
> 
> Any ideas, anyone?
> -- 
>            Bob Eager
Except during high loads, most of the commands are acceptably fast on
my VAX (Ultrix == BSD3.2 or thereabouts), and I've had similar results 
with 3.6 on my Amiga.  Its not exactly blinding, but fully usable.  Also,
on the VAX when the system's slow the cursor will keep up with my
typing and the program will go back and fill in what I typed when I 
slow down.  Your problem on the PC may be due to the inherent slowness
of PCs, but there's a good chance you could blame your compiler's
large memory model as well.  Some of these models call memory access
routines for each and every pointer access in the program!  With some
code at least that could slow you down by a few orders of magnitude.
I'm not completely familiar with PC family compilers, but recently one
of the software magazines had an article on large-memory models for
8088... family systems (think it was Computer Language, but it could
have been DDJ).

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Dave Haynie    {caip,ihnp4,allegra,seismo}!cbmvax!daveh

	"I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and
	 for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment."
							-Gotama Buddha

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