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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!world!ksr!jfw@ksr.com From: jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: Nethack Message-ID: <29099@ksr.com> Date: 6 Jul 93 12:58:48 EDT References: <21678c$13q@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <216rcfINNj4@fstgds01.tu-graz.ac.at> Sender: news@ksr.com Organization: Kendall Square Research Corp. Lines: 13 chmr@edvz.tu-graz.ac.at (Christoph Robitschko) writes: >And yes, for terminal reads we'll probably check the PTE for each byte >(on 386 or without the 486 WP bit). But terminal reads are normally >not important for performance (who can type fastest ? 8-), Uh, well, I've seen uucicos that can "type" at 38.4Kbps. It would sure be nice if this brand-spanking new 486 I have could keep up, at least on ONE port, with my 10-year-old UNOS system with one-tenth the processing power... >and I think someone is working on changing terminal reads to use copyout >instead of subyte. That should help.