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    04-Jul-88 17:26:01
Sb: #133158-#cocomm
Fm: Don Curtis/SYSOP 76703,4321
To: Henry Colonna 74726,3216

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Henry, Oh…believe me I know about the slowness in the ST…working on the now defunct paperclip…we had all kinds of 'fun' trying to get it sped up. Dan did most of the work, but even using the line-a routines, it was still slow (no blitter). Things like early telecomm programs on the Amiga had problems with text speed since the authors used 'get a character from the buffer and print it to the screen' routines. They quickly learned that the proper way to go was 'get all the characters in the buffer and print them to the screen' routines. That sped things up significantly. Don