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RE: Midnight Commander 4.0 success-Bringing XT speed to Win95
- To: "gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>, "'Victor Schneider'" <vischne at ibm dot net>
- Subject: RE: Midnight Commander 4.0 success-Bringing XT speed to Win95
- From: Sergey Okhapkin <sos at prospect dot com dot ru>
- Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 21:24:09 +0300
Victor Schneider wrote:
> One observation, though. Screen refreshes are _slower_ than a 5 MHZ 8086
> XT machine sending its screen updates to the XT bios. Have we really
> come this far to discover that Windows is stacked against character-mode
> programs?
It's a well known problem of Win95. Console API works very slow. Compare with the same on NT.
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