Re: Ultima - The Game

[jimwong@owlnet.rice.edu (Jim Wong)]

In article <BywFJx.5sv@news.iastate.edu> hal@budapest.math.macalstr.edu (Harold Byron Bouma) writes:
>seconds in 256 colors w/ colored windowbars (don't ask me why that was nearly  
>twice as slow as simple 256 mode) for a 200 line document on a Mac IIcx running  
>System 7. (And that same document took 9 seconds in B&W). That was just a  
>simple _benchmark_ I did one night while doing homework, not a statement  
>regarding the optimal performance of the Mac's GUI.

But like most benchmarks, this one is flawed.  The speed with which
a window scross is very much dependent on the program you're using.
Look at the speed with which some of the nifty demos for the GS
draw, and then look at AppleWorks GS; you could draw incomplete, or
even wrong, conclusions by limiting the scope of your examination.

(At it's beyond me as well why the Mac's scrolling slows down so much
when colored scroll bars ar turned on.  Oh well).


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Jim Wong (jimwong@owlnet.rice.edu)