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From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: V86 mode
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References: <107725@hydra.gatech.EDU> <23tqbk$3tt@europa.eng.gtefsd.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Aug 1993 02:59:13 GMT
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In article <23tqbk$3tt@europa.eng.gtefsd.com> niemidc@oasis.gtefsd.com writes:
>The V86-mode emulators I have seen tend to suck about 10% of the CPU each (on a 386).
>Is this inherent in V86 mode, or is it a deficiency of the implementation?
>In other words, have you gotten around this problem?

My 2 cents:

In dealing with S3 cards for the last year or so, it is a whole lot easier
to initialize the vga cards via BIOS rather than coding for all the little
variant s3 cards.

Amancio


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