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Re: Executor Speed
> With 8MB of RAM you'll have trouble in X-windows. You should get at least
> 12MB to avoid excessive swapping. I have the same video card and the video
> performance is OK for most applications. Here are some benchmarks I did for
> the LJ article that was just published:
>
> MAC LC III 68040, 25 MHz AMD486DX4-100
> S3 864, 8bit X
> under Linux 1.2.8
How much RAM do your AMD have ?
Also, as far as I know, the Mac LCIII have a 68030 processor... The
first LC Mac which get an '040 CPU was the LC475.
Third point, is your Linux version really 1.2.8 ? I read on this list
5 minutes ago that v. 1.3.?? was a requirement.
Thanks for any details
>
> Dhrystones 5.9 8.4
>
> Spedometer
> CPU index 6.8 13.9
>
> Spedometer
> Graphics 7.6 5
> 5.1 (-privatecmap)
> Spedometer
> 8bit graphics 2.3 1.2
> 2.5 (-privatecmap)
>
> Bottomline the DX4-100 is faster than a Mac LC III for almost everything and
> if one uses the -privatecmap option for X-windows the grapics performance is
> reasonable with an accelerated graphics card.
>
> Hope that helps
> Andreas
>
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> Andreas Schiffler Institute of Space and Atmospheric Studies (ISAS),
> University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
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JMR