From: al-b@minster.york.ac.uk Subject: Re: X-windows and a 80x87 Date: 19 Jun 1993 11:20:09 GMT
In article <1993Jun18.164155.21849@swan.pyr> iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox) writes:
>A maths coprocessor will speed up interviews based stuff, which is IMHO badly
>designed and uses floats all over the place. Normal X stuff isn't any different.
>SOme oddments like cbzone(battlezone) run quicker with a copro, but only cos
>they themselves use floats not because of the X11.
>
>Alan
>
That reminds me of all these people saying MS-Windows doesn't use the
copro! My dad has a Dell 316 in his office (386SX-16 with 2MB RAM) and
didn't like MS-Windoze because it was so slow :-) Anyway, he brought
home the disks and I installed it on my (then) 8088/8087 PC with 640K.
Now why did my dad think it was at least four times faster on my PC than
on his, if it doesn't use the coprocessor? Logic tells me that a 386SX
should be faster than a 10MHz 8088, even with an 8087..?
Andrew.