C-Ltd upgrade message
03-Jan-89 02:05:54
Sb: #28487-C-Ltd upgrade message
Fm: John Draper 76703,4322
To: Dean Brown 72250,2677
Dean,
I have timed it on a SCSI drive, and no longer have an ST506 drive hooked up
(though if I really wanted to, it could be done one evening). Yes, my
performance does seem to be better, though I only loaded a 640*400*4 pic with
some random lines drawn on it. It took approximately 4 seconds.
Hmm… let me try something and see if I can do it without crashing.
OK… I tried two pics from the flickeFixer disk. FF_Test (640*400*4, 38K) took
about 5 seconds, 'mandril' (512x420x4, 101K), took about 30 seconds. mandril
loaded with much ado and seeking. Loading mandril with 'UShow' puts the screen
into hi-res first, then loads the pic, and it takes less than 2 seconds.
Frankly, I suspect DPaint. I have thought of a test to try, but I will have to
reboot to do it. I will use TDebug to intercept the calls to the 2090, and
compare the loads of UShow and Dpaint. Perhaps the sectors accessed will prove
interesting.
Regards, Larry.