[plug] display overhead (was: NVidia/RENDER)

[James Devenish]

In message <200310170738.12860.leon at brooks.fdns.net>
on Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 07:38:12AM +0800, Leon Brooks wrote:
> And if you don't... run your trendy new gunwhale-down-with-chrome
> app over a modem link

Been there, done that. Surprising how much you can do, in some ways (not
xpdf!). Biggest problem for me is fuss and bother if connection drops
out.

> In the Bad Old Days, the technique was simply to step your terminal back 
> to 300 baud and run your app. I remember watching a CoBOL programmer's 
> face when we did that to his app and he could see the cursor repainting 
> some fields up to 14 times.

I think that's why I don't appreciate either ncurses or slang as much as
the other. (If only I could remember which!)


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