From: rohrer@fncrd6.fnal.gov (Keith Rohrer) Subject: Re: 387 Performance gains under X - yes/no Date: 17 Jul 1992 14:42:19 GMT
In article <1992Jul17.131647.19840@crd.ge.com>, davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) writes:
|>
|> I installed a 387 on my SX system trying to speed up X (I have 12MB
|> already in that box), and it did help considerably. I am not running
|> linux (bus mice on all three home systems), but I was running X386
Bus mice? Waitaminnit, I've heard reports that bus mice *are* supported,
and that bus mice are *not* supported, under Linux' X11.
Which is it, people? I've got a bus mouse myself...
|> (X11R4) and the speedup was obvious. I finally dropped in a 486DX33 and
|> the speedup was pretty obvious, too ;-)
|>
|> If you have <8MB you probably should add memory for other reasons
|> first, in my opinion, but the 387 helped me quite a bit.
I'm curious, just what is X doing that needs floating point math?
|> --
|> bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
|> It never ceases to amaze me that otherwise rational people, able to
|> understand calculus, compound interest, and the income tax form, can
|> continue to believe that poker is a game of chance.
Keith
(rohrer@fncrd0.fnal.gov)
(my summer .sig died of skin cancer)