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- From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
- Subject: Re: Small X for 386 bsd??
- Message-ID: <r!mngjk.hasty@netcom.com>
- Date: Fri, 04 Sep 92 02:28:49 GMT
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <1992Aug31.214129.3861@news.uit.no> <80hnj7a.hasty@netcom.com> <N2XIFZ6@taronga.com>
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- In article <N2XIFZ6@taronga.com> peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
- >In article <80hnj7a.hasty@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:
- >>If you or anyone can come up with a better windowing system than X
- >>which enjoys such wide support not only on 386bsd but across many
- >>operating systems and that is FREE, Please let me know.
- >
- >MGR
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- >Anyone doing a port? I don't have 386BSD here, but a good windowing system
- >that didn't make a 486/50 seem less responsive then an Amiga 500 would
- >be a convincing argument... :->
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- I have an 486/33 is very responsive with X. Also, the performance
- problems in a PC are related to non-accelarated svga chip-sets and
- their 64k banking systems. For instance, the S3 is about 10 times
- faster than your regular vga.
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- Is MGR a networked windowing system ? And does it have a graphics API?
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- Amancio Hasty
- >--
- > `-_-'
- > Have you hugged your wolf today? 'U`
- >
- >Peter da Silva, Taronga Park BBS, Houston, TX +1 713 568 0480/1032
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