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From: casper@osiris.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Who sells PC/VI?:  Now MKS Tool
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Date: Fri, 5-Jun-87 23:32:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  5 23:32:00 1987
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Nf-From: osiris.cso.uiuc.edu!casper    Jun  5 22:32:00 1987




    Whoops.  I did not mean to plagiarize the previous author.  The note
got away from me.  What follows fits in this discussion somewhere...

    I recently bought MKS 2.1, partly because their sales people had said 
it was faster than PC/VI because it wrote directly to video memory. (I
believe the most recent PC/VI does now also).  I was just a bit upset to 
find that the vi was unbearably slow on screen updates.  It turned out that the 
way they were updating the screen was not the best method for EGA color, and
caused scrolling the screen to be painfully slow.  This only shows up when 
using an EGA with a color monitor.  In all other modes, it supposedly is 
lightening fast.
    They have since made a patch for this problem and I assume it is included
in the recently announce release.  I have had no problems or complaints 
with my copy of this new version.

    -dave gerdes

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