Re: METAL is now FREE!!!!!!

[dsdd@okcforum.osrhe.edu (Roy Barrett)]

Daniel Vachon (dvac@druwa.ATT.COM) wrote:

: All this talk about METAL...Well, I will say that if you are running on an
: un-accelerated Apple //e, or even a Transwarped //e....I would not recommend
: METAL/FV for you.  I ran a Metal BBS for about a year (used to run on ACOS),
: and the switch ended up driving away a lot of users because it took forever
: to do many things that used to be quite fast under ACOS.  If you have an
: 8MHz //gs, METAL is a great way to go....But if you are on a budget with a 
: normal //e...I would not suggest METAL as it is quite slow (painfully so, 
: really...)  

I don't think so...  Metal is -so- much faster than Acos, I've seen it on
all kinds of computers.  Something could actually be wrong, or the versions
of Metal you used had bad memory management.


: My 1 MHz ACOS system ran about 5 times faster than by 3.8MHz METAL system.
: I have a //e w/1Meg RAM, 80 meg scsi HD, Transwarp //e (SCSI port was 
: accelerated), and a USR HST.   The one thing that is REALLY nice that METAL
: has and ACOS doesn't is the really slick full-screen editor that METAL has.

that's not the only thing.  The kernel and the language that Metal has still
kills Acos.  Maybe the slowness was in FV, since GBBS is so lame as to even
have 1/20th of the coding Future Vision has.

: just some food for thought...

I think this food has gone bad.

: -Dan Vachon