On 6/1/05, Andy Goth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Hamish Marson wrote:
> > Admittedly text screens with LOTS of updates may run slower... But how
> > often do people run fast moving text displays?
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> Every time they do a scrolling directory listing.
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> I have a relatively slow display on my laptop (have to use VESA
> drivers), but I only notice when I scroll a lot of text in a
> vertically-maximized xterm.  The rest of the time, things are peachy.

Good point.  I hadn't thought of that.  

But in his defense, if there are lots of blank spaces on the screen,
and they're in many of the same places before and after the scroll,
then it's not so bad.  Of course, we can't always count on that sort
of thing.

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