Stevie (vi clone)

[Roy M. Silvernail]

bobmon at iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante) writes:

> FWIW, v3.69 has many functional improvements over v3.68.  For MSDOS users,
> it also supports BIOS video, which is less pelasing (to me) but faster.

(ahem. I've moved this to alt.sources.d to give the source postings more
breathing room :-)

I've played about pretty extensively with Stevie 3.69 whilst modifying
it for BBS use (under MS-DOS). I have compiled both with and without
BIOS video writes. The non-BIOS routines are _significantly_ faster on
my machine. The only difference I can see is that BIOS video doesn't
require the NANSI driver. Perhaps I just have a lethargic BIOS?
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