On 5 Nov 2005 at 9:55, Derek Stewart wrote: > Hi Wolfgang, > > 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.
I'm not sure about the slowing down - if I understand correctly what was proposed was the the OS would be compressed in ROM and then (entirely) decompressed into RAM at boot time, where it would then run full speed. Probably faster than booting from hard disk. > I think stick as we are now, writting the operating system uncompressed > and in assembler. I presume this will remain a moot point since, as I let appear in my moody reply to that suggestion, I don't think anyone will really write such a compression/decompression algorythm. Wolfgang ---------------------------------------- www.scp-paulet-lenerz.com _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
