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- From: andrey@cco.caltech.edu (Andre T. Yew)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: X-windows issues was Re: A4000 Educational Discount
- Date: 17 Dec 1992 17:37:55 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- jamiller@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
-
- >GFXBase's X11 sever on the other hand runs under Amigados
- >(Don't think it's 1.3 compatable but am probably wrong) is color, as I
- >hear supports AGA resolutions and provides maybe the better soloution
- >if you just want to run X stuff.
-
- (I'm not Dale Luck, but just a very satisfied user of GfxBase's
- X server.) GfxBase's server does run under 1.3, does support color,
- and AGA. But, under the ECS, the color modes aren't very useful.
- Either there are too few colors (4 to 8 colors?) or it's too slow --
- the 16-color mode just crawls. I haven't seen it yet under AGA, so I
- can't say anything meaningful. GfxBase does sell their own chunky
- pixel framebuffer, the GDA-1 for about $800, on which 8-bit X runs
- faster than a Sun-3 (is that right Dale?) at a resolution of
- 1024x768. The board is useful with ADPro and comes with a bunch
- of programming stuff and examples. There's at least one person
- on the net who has one, and he seems pretty happy with it.
-
- >(BTW, I have neither but Dale Luck of GFXBase I'm sure would respond
- >to inquires. comp.unix.amiga is probably the best newsgroup to get
- >more info for anyone interested)
-
- Well, for GfxBase's X, I'd imagine either csa.datacomm or
- csa.applications would be useful, too.
-
- --Andre
-
- --
- Andre Yew andrey@cco.caltech.edu (131.215.139.2)
-