From: brians@rigel.cs.pdx.edu (Brian Smith) Subject: Re: MGR, anyone? Date: 21 Feb 1992 05:30:46 GMT
paula@atc.boeing.com (Paul Allen) writes:
>Although I would really like to have access to the huge amount of X
>software that's out there, I really think that MGR is much better suited
>to a small machine like a 386/486. X is OK if you've got 20 MIPs to
>burn and hardware graphics accelleration. On a plain VGA, it's gonna
>look pretty sad.
Uh, I beg to differ on that. I'm running 1024x768 8-bit X11r4 here on
ISC's SysV 3.2. It performs as well as the Sparcs that I've seen which
do not have acceleration (accelerated Sparcs I have not seen). It runs
*faster* than the DecStation 3100. It is true that Thomas Roell did a
masterful job of porting X to SysV 386, but there are a lot improvements
in X11r5 for general performance, and I'd say that linux already is or
soon will be faster than the dreaded monolithic AT&T kernel.
Brian
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