casper@osiris.UUCP (06/05/87)
/* Written 12:07 am Jun 2, 1987 by neighorn@qiclab.UUCP in osiris:comp.sys.ibm.pc */ /* ---------- "Re: Who sells PC/VI?: Now MKS Tool" ---------- */ In article <6067@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> davidsen@kbsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) writes: >There were (still are) a few sequences which cause problems, and it doesn't >LIKE to run on a fast system (don't ask me why a command processor is timing >sensitive, it is). >-- >bill davidsen sixhub \ ARPA: wedu@ge-crd.arpa > ihnp4!seismo!rochester!steinmetz -> crdos1!davidsen What's this about not liking to run on a fast system? I have been using the program on a 80386 machine running at 16 Mhz for over 6 months and have yet to encounter an error that could not be duplicated on a 4.77 Mhz PC/XT. Could you elaborate on the problems you have encountered with fast systems? I would like to try to them out on the systems I use (PC/XT, AT, AT clone at 10 Mhz, and '386). Mucho Thanks. -- Steven C. Neighorn tektronix!{psu-cs,reed}!qiclab!neighorn Portland Public Schools "Where we train young Star Fighters to defend the (503) 249-2000 ext 337 frontier against Xur and the Ko-dan Armada" /* End of text from osiris:comp.sys.ibm.pc */
casper@osiris.UUCP (06/06/87)
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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