From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 19 08:49:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA01523 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 08:49:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from lestat.nas.nasa.gov (lestat.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.50.29]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA01517 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 08:49:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lestat.nas.nasa.gov (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id IAA12577; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 08:41:49 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199702191641.IAA12577@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> X-Authentication-Warning: lestat.nas.nasa.gov: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk (Philippe Regnauld) Cc: pb@fasterix.freenix.fr (Pierre Beyssac), freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pcvt/132 columns Reply-To: Jason Thorpe From: Jason Thorpe Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 08:41:49 -0800 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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