Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: > 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'm pretty sure the code is always copied to RAM anyway, even on the Qx0. Doing something like an RLE decompression on the way is pretty trivial, the whole SMSQ/E module concept is even already prepared for compressed modules. But anything more than RLE might be too much work and RLE will only gain about 10kb. > 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. I certainly don't have much incentive to do so, right. Marcel _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
