Speed of text editors on 808x platform

Dave McGuire wrote: Ironically, it was speed that was a major sticking point. There were about three editors out of everything I tested with the screen/input response to satisfy me. I'm not talking about things that take actual time, like search/replace etc., but regular things like scrolling or pageup/down. I understand some of these have legacy terminal roots, but 80x25 is only 4000 bytes of memory, it shouldn't be rocket science to update it in a timely fashion... unless your text is represented internally significantly more complex than structures of strings I suppose. -- Jim Leonard (trixter at oldskool.org) http://www.oldskool.org/ Help our electronic games project: http://www.mobygames.com/ Or check out some trippy MindCandy at http://www.mindcandydvd.com/ A child borne of the home computer wars: http://trixter.wordpress.com/