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to: Maurice Kinal
from: Bo Simonsen
date: 2003-10-10 10:20:22
subject: Long `unzip` time

Hello Maurice!

08 Oct 03 14:17, you wrote to me:

 BS>> Okay! The problem is that if I switch between X and console, the
 BS>> blinking D's come..

 MK> Ah!  I have seen simular things on other graphic cards.  Do you have a
 MK> kernel with framebuffers enabled for your particular graphics
 MK> card/chip?

Yes, but I don't like the framebuffer, it might be the fonts that I don't like..

 BS>> It's sad that a widely used OS as Windows doesn't include a
 BS>> compiler, after I've been using Linux for some years, it's very
 BS>> annoying to use a OS without a compiler included!

 MK> I wouln't know.  That has never happened to me.  Even back when I had
 MK> my first PC I had a compiler on DOS.  Later on I switched to DJGPP
 MK> since it most closely resembled gcc.

Oh, DJGPP is a short way of writing?

 MK> A little buggy but at least I
 MK> didn't have to worry so much about portability.  Fortran was a whole
 MK> other can of worms.  I'm glad those days are behind me although every
 MK> once and awhile I get the urge to break out some source.  It goes away
 MK> though.  :-)

I wrote from in the old days.. But C was imho for simpler ...

Regards,
Bo

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