Msg: Re: TameDOS for vDOS-lfn

My reservations about employing Tame have always revolved around layering too many components on top of each other, for something that is supposed to wind up stable and functional. And there would have to be a very major payoff, which has never been sufficiently evident to me. I guess I'm wary of winding up with a Rube Goldberg contraption.

Jordan

From: Edward Mendelson
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2016 11:36 AM
Subject: Re: TameDOS for vDOS-lfn

Harry,

Well, an attempt to combine vDos and Tame certainly is an original and
unusual approach, and one that I never would have thought of. I will be
curious to learn the results of your experiments.

> It's not clear yet that the version of Tame that's so beneficial can
> be run with vDos. Stay tuned. But the motive for running the older
> version (4.41) was to lower CPU usage, which often went to 100% went
> Xy was NOT the active window, and to get faster and smoother cursor
> movement. But neither of these seem to be a problem with vDos for Xy.
>
> The later versions can provide nice displays, even mixing in a smaller
> font size. See the screenshot of what I can do in regular,
> NTVDM-based, Xywrite on a 32-bit system (used in an email to David
> Thomas of Tame):
>
> http://www.hblist.com/p/XyTame.jpg
>