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From: osbornk@mist.cs.orst.edu (Kasey S. Osborn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: Re: Os/2 Comm. Manager
Message-ID: <15659@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Date: 8 Feb 90 21:28:57 GMT
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In article <77.25d05c83@waikato.ac.nz> ccc_ldo@waikato.ac.nz writes:
|In article <15325@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>, osbornk@uther.CS.ORST.EDU
|(Kasey S. Osborn) writes:
|>I have a Wyse 286 running at 10 Mhz.  It can't even keep up with 2400
|>baud in a PM window.  Scrolling just kills the throughput.  (I blame
|>the poor design of VGA.)  This has stifled my attempts at writing a PM
|>communication program and makes me wary of other PM communication
|>programs.  Has anybody discovered a solution besides getting a 386?
|
|How about getting a Mac?

Why not?  because:
1) No *real* multitasking.
2) No protected environment.
3) Price/performance.
4) Apple Corp.

BTW, it was suggested to me to use "scroll ahead."  Whenever you are about
to scroll, look ahead in the input buffer for additional scrolls and scroll
that many times at once.  X uses this technique.

Kasey S. Osborn
"There's a lot to be said for brevity."