At 3:39 PM -0800 2/6/02, Bill Studenmund wrote:

:)It's not OF's fault, it's the fact we aren't using graphics acceleration.
:)Though they shouldn't be quite *that* slow.

[sigh].  Sometimes I feel no one bothers to RTFM.

From http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/faq.html#scroll-speed

	The text console code is not optimized in the GENERIC kernel. There is
	accelerated text console code in -current, if you build a new kernel.
	This fix is not in NetBSD 1.5.x.

	You will need to build a new kernel. Add the following line to your
	kernel configuration:

	options	OFB_ENABLE_CACHE

Of course, I have no idea why this isn't the default behavior because the
uncached ofb is nigh unusable.

  -- MW