Hi Derek,
> I think that compressing the operating system would slow things down
> alot. We would end up with a slow system like WIndows, which would
> require 4Ghz machies to make it look and feel reasonable.
Not necesserily. When SMS2 was put into ROM for the ATARI,
it was MUCH faster to decompress and copy it into RAM.
Decompression is a one-time progress at start-up only, but
every further access to the OS from RAM is much, much faster
than to ROM. So even just copying (with our without compression)
to RAM may speed up the system.
Don't know about the Qx0, but as far as I am aware, EPROMs
used to be slower than RAM access on more or less every system.
Jochen
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