Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/06/23:15:01
On Thu, 6 Feb 1997, Dave Pearson wrote:
> Roger Ivie writes:
> > modifying COMMAND.COM so that it does direct screen writes down to a
>
> What I fail to understand is why so many people seem to totally ignore
> one important aspect of what was proposed. IT'S AN OPTION!!! That is,
You know, it's just occurred to me, I'll almost bet that those squeaking
about being able to have command.com direct write have slow machines?
A 486SX66 would only spend about 0.01 percent of the time running through
the DOS/BIOS interface, and most of the time waiting on you. What's the
rush? A 386SX33 might be 10x that, even so, it's minimal overhead.
(P.S. Wild Hairy Guesses!)
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