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From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
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Subject: Re: Accelerator Boards for the ST
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Date: 8 May 89 21:30:14 GMT
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I played with the Datafree board for a few minutes while at the MACE Atari Expo
this weekend. Timed a few operations in ARC521 running under Gulam. There was
only about an 8% speedup using the ARC (T)est command, which decompresses a
file but performs no write operations. Unfortunately, these times are a little
suspect - the machine they had was a 520ST with 4MB of RAM installed, and slow
memory clearing code. There was quite a long delay between issuing a command
to Gulam and actually seeing notes from ARC. Perhaps things would have looked
better if they had used a Mega...

Just as an aside, I picked up TurboST 1.4 as well. Finally got support in there
for the small system fonts, so I can use 50 line mode in Gulam with it. (Yeah!)
Wayne BuckHoldt (the author) was there showing off some Very Quick graphics
demos. Looks like he's going to rewrite all of Line-A by the time the next
release comes out. Kind of sad, me with a Mega and hardware blitter, and a
bit of software leaves it in the dust... Sigh. 
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