From: Nigel Roles ngr@symbionics.co.uk
Subject: Set User (aka su)
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 04:36:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19950823083658.vNCBiZSLadccPs4ybvXPgv6g0p35rI_JYyijm4lmFaU@z> (raw)
>
> |> From: forsyth@plan9.cs.york.ac.uk
> |>
> |> (after all, Sun's EEPROM has the screen mapped, and did you ever see
> |> the display and scrolling time on that in the older Sparcs. whew!)
>
> I hate to find myself in the possible position of defending Sun
> on this one, but I would like to point out that there were two very
> significant reasons for this: (1) folks didn't expect that performance
> would be an issue, and (2) the code involved was interpreted forth
> running from EEPROM which require 1 usec/byte fetch. It doesn't
Why is interpreted Forth a defence? Sounds more like a plea bargain.
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