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- From: bobh@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com (Bob Headrick)
- Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1992 17:39:43 GMT
- Subject: Re: S3 vs. ET4000?
- Message-ID: <139500002@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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- >So, the question is, what kind of performance improvement (if any) can I expect
- >from the S3 card? Is it worth it? I intend to be doing mostly text editing in
- >X. Does it make any difference in this case?
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- I've run x11perf on both a F1280 S3 card, as well as an ISA ET4000 card.
- The S3 card is about 2-3X as fast in text operations. TEsts were run
- with a 50Mhx 486. I do not have any data on the local bus version of
- the ET4000.
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- Bob Headrick
- bobh@cup.hp.com [These opinions do not reflect thos of my employer,
- etc]
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