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- From: harry@cv.hp.com (Harry Phinney)
- Subject: Re: X11R5 server SLOW, on 705 with GRX + xterm bug
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- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 01:32:39 GMT
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- jp107@cus.cam.ac.uk (Jon Peatfield) writes:
- : Now I've seen things like this before when comparing accelerated
- : Xservers against unaccelerated Xservers, so I'm starting to think that
- : maybe the GRX has an accelerator, which the HP server makes use of,
- : but the sample Ngle code doesn't. Can anyone confirm or deny this?
-
- I would hesitate to term the GRX hardware "an accelerator", but it
- does certainly have features which provide performance enhancements
- for tiling, stippling, and some other operations.
-
- : Does anyone have enough info about the Ngle hardware (specifically the
- : S9000_ID_A1439A, since that is what the GRX and CRX are), to write the
- : ddx server code which will be able to make use of it?
-
- Yes, the people writing the HP servers have such expertise.:-) The
- server which will be distributed with HP-UX 9.0 is based on X11-R5,
- and certainly does utilize these features of the GRX display system.
-
- Harry Phinney harry@hp-pcd.cv.hp.com
-