Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 11:15:08 -0800 From: Dan Mahoney <dan@wolf.com> To: "Bart \(The Good Guy\) Trzynadlowski" <trzy@powernet.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SPEED of Text OS Message-ID: <19981223111508.J2683@wolf.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981223095007.0081f410@powernet.net>; from Bart (The Good Guy) Trzynadlowski on Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 09:50:07AM -0800 References: <3.0.5.32.19981223095007.0081f410@powernet.net>
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> I've tried both Linux (Redhat 5.1) and PicoBSD but there has always been > something that really nags me about the text OS and typing in general (even > sometimes in X)... Why does the typing rate seem sluggish in the text os? > The repeat rate for the keyboard is slow and overall typing is a tad bit > muckier than in say... DOS... > If any of you have access to DOS try it out and then take a look at > FreeBSD's or Linux's speed... I dont know wether it is me or my hardware... > But it seems a bit slower. > > My machine specs are as follows: > > CPU: Pentium 166MHz w/out MMX > RAM: 80 Megabytes of EDO RAM (im not sure of the nanoseconds... but it isnt > very speedy....) > HDD: 1.6 gig and 4.0 gig > VIDEO: S3 Trio64v+ 1mb RAM - based video card My guess would be that it's something in your sys config. The machine I'm using is a Pentium 90 with 32 MB RAM, and it can handle keypresses as fast as I can generate them. The repeat rate seems ok too (isn't that one of the parameters that we can set through /stand/sysinstall?). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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