From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 23 11:05:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA24783 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 11:05:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wolf.com (ns1.wolf.com [207.137.58.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA24773 for ; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 11:05:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@wolf.com) Received: (qmail 9560 invoked by uid 100); 23 Dec 1998 19:15:09 -0000 Message-ID: <19981223111508.J2683@wolf.com> Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 11:15:08 -0800 From: Dan Mahoney To: "Bart \(The Good Guy\) Trzynadlowski" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SPEED of Text OS References: <3.0.5.32.19981223095007.0081f410@powernet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i 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 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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