On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 08:57:18AM -0800, Dave Hartnell wrote:
> I finally got Openfirmware all figured out and the machine running fine.
> 
> Now i'm trying to get the basics installed like bash and SSHD.
> 
> first thing i noticed is that even scrolling text on this machine is very
> slow compared to even a Pentium 200.
> 
> After ftp'ing down the source for ssh and bash and running tar to extract
> them i notice that its not just scrolling but everything on this machine is
> very slow.. it took almost 5minutes to compile bash.
> 
> Has anyone seen this before?

The whole problem is scrolling. I think the kernel still relies on Openfirmware
routines
for display ...

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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