Author: Jo Even (213-187-172-45.dd.nextgentel.com)
Date: 01-24-2002 01:00
FatRakoon wrote:
> NVDI is only marginally faster than
> standard Magic on your Stacy???
Yes. The only thing that's faster with NVDI is text output. MagiC's VDI is still way faster than Atari's.
> now ) Maybe its because the Stacy being
> the laptop style, and has very slow
> display anyway??
No, since benchmarks only measure the time it takes to perform the operation, the result is the same as in ST High.
> My previous stuff with MiNT - You are
> offering help???
Yes, I did. Just mail me your configuration-files (mint.cnf, n_aes.cnf) and an unsorted list of your autofolder (how it looks under MiNT ofcourse), and I'll try to help you out. Oh, some info on your hardware would help too.
> KOBOLD
> No, I am not saying to make a full
> filesystem, thats not what I mean, I just
> mean that having the basic
> COPY/MOVE/DELETE stuff would surely make
The problem is that TOS doesn't *have* any functions for copying or moving (*) files, so no programs would be able to use this...
(* From TOS 1.04 and upwards, Frename can rename the complete path, and not just the filename. So Frename can actually move files within partitions. This is the same thing as Kobold does.)
> at least surely there must be some better
> way to get a faster Disk access?
It would be very hard to do it any faster and more reliable than MiNT and MagiC does it today. Both push the hardware to the limit, atleast on my TT.
> I simply meant that rather than the O/S
> being written in C, what if it was re-done
> in Assem, with the bugs fixed, then it
> would be faster,
It could be faster, but not any faster than MagiC or MiNT is today. There is little advantage in writing everything in assembler, that's why large parts of both MagiC and NVDI is written in C. Hand-optimized assembler can make a difference in small, tight loops, but generally speaking it's not worth the time and effort when it comes to a project like a complete OS. The OS doesn't do much anyway, atleast not ours.
I'd suggest that you burn a stable version of MagiC in ROMs, and try that out. It's a very good solution for ST's, atleast if you fit a TOS-switch.
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