On Sat, 5 Nov 2005 at 11:00:55, SMSQ - Jochen Merz wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>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.
I did say that earlier - yes I understand Qx0 is the same - ie ram
access is faster. It seems nonsense to suffer a slower running system
just for the sake of a faster boot.
.... and therefore just not worth the trouble of blowing new eproms.
Tony
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