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From: ralf@b.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown)
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Subject: Re: Anyone have or seen a copy of FlickerFree software?
Keywords: flickerfree Gibson Research software PC
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Date: 14 Jul 88 22:29:57 GMT
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In article <521@micropen> dave@micropen (David F. Carlson) writes:
}  By simply relocating the bios into ram,
}as many 386 boxes do, a factor of ~2-3 is made.

The factor of two comes from the fact that most 386's use 16-bit ROMs, so 
relocating them into 32-bit RAM will cut the number of memory accesses in 
half.  Note that there are one or two 386 systems that actually use 32-bit
ROMs, and these will not show such a great speed increase.
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