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Re: Any planned comm software for SS/TR?



In article <3h2fk4$hdv@paris.ics.uci.edu>, Orion Pax <jlee@ics.uci.edu> wrote:
> 
> It's not text screen. It's SHR, that's why :).  Although I do think
> ANSITerm could be lots faster if it was in 320 mode and a custom font.

To get 80-column text in 320 mode, you have 4 pixels per character
(including the gap between the characters).  Have you ever tried to
draw text with less than five?  It looks awful.

I doubt it would be any faster - the same amount of memory is used in
320 mode and 640 mode, so scrolling would be identical.  The only
benefit would be more colours.


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