dos386 - 2010-08-25

> On an Intel Pentium 3 notebook with 128MB of RAM and 6GB HDD and a fresh
> FreeDOS installation, the FPC IDE and Pacific C IDE run extremely slow

Bad :-(

> When I press a key it takes 1-3 seconds for anything to happen,
> both in the menus and in the code editor.

I don't have this problem.

> I installed Turbo Pascal 7 to compare, and TP7 works fine, just like you'd expect
> on a computer with these hardware specs and DOS.

> What can I do?

- Close the duplicate "BUG"

- Reveal what versions of FreeDOS (hint: 2006 distro's are obsolete) and FPC you use

- Remove all unnecessary stuff (SYS drivers and TSR's): FDAPM, German keyboard "drivers", EMM386, HIMEM

- Use a better (CUTE 2.1b4) or no mouse driver

- Try HDPMI32 instead of CWSDPMI

- Reveal how big your text is

- Try whether EDR-DOS kernel also has this "BUG"

- Try whether other editors (FASM DOS IDE) are also slow

- Note that FPC DOS IDE is __VERY__ buggy, please report the bugs into FPC "Mantis" BUGzilla (but it was not slow in my limited tests)