Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 08:41:49 -0800 From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> To: regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk (Philippe Regnauld) Cc: pb@fasterix.freenix.fr (Pierre Beyssac), freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pcvt/132 columns Message-ID: <199702191641.IAA12577@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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On Wed, 19 Feb 1997 09:53:27 +0100 regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk (Philippe Regnauld) wrote: > I don't know about Sparcs, but you could get a small program in C for > old 3 and 3x (sconsole ?) that would speed up by a factor of 2-5 > the console. Hmmm.... I vaguely recall a program that would read the ROM contents out of ROM, place them into RAM, and change the PROM's mappings to make the RAM appear at the ROM's address... fetching instructions from faster storage would certainly make a difference :-) Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: 408.866.1912 NAS: M/S 258-6 Work: 415.604.0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: 415.428.6939
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