From: jhelberg@nl.oracle.com (Joost Helberg) Subject: Re: 387 Performance gains under X - yes/no Date: 17 Jul 1992 07:14:51 GMT
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snake@cs.tu-berlin.de (Harald Schulze) writes:
: In article <1992Jul15.195723.5400@wuecl.wustl.edu> todd@wutc.wustl.edu (Todd M. Carrico) writes:
: >
: >I have been running X11v1.1 on a 386/25 for a while now - and while I am
: >thrilled to be able to run X - I am a but disheartened by the scrolling
: >speed and window move redraws.
: >...
: >Will getting a 387 significantly improve performance under X for normal
: >activities like
: > - scrolling
: > - moving windows
: > - drawing menus
: >and what about activities like
: > - drawing and building images
I have a 386/33, no 387, performance is not nice (espeically scrolling).
:
: I am wondering if an upgrade from 4MB to 8MB RAM would make more sense.
: I am running a similar machine and since the price of an 387 (from Cyrix)
: is pretty much the same as the price for another 4MB RAM, I'm asking myself
: what to buy next.
I forgto, I have 8MB RAM, so no gain there!