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- From: jdc@tropix.uucp (Jim Cronin)
- Subject: What is the fastest 80x86 SVR4 X window hardware?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.162409.19441@tropix.uucp>
- Organization: GCA/Tropel Division, Fairport, NY
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 16:24:09 GMT
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- As the subject line says, what is the "fastest" X-windows display
- for a 80386 or 80486 running SVR4 Unix? Are there particular
- chipsets (ET4000 or 8414 for example) that are really great or
- really bad? Are there any boards out there that are much better
- or much worse? Are there any that stand out at low resolution
- but slow down at higher resolutions? And how about dual-ported
- video ram?
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- What about the software? Is X11R5 much faster than X11R4? What
- about Xfree86?
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- Our goal is to find something that gives good X performance on a
- 486-PC running Unix (Esix in our case). The machine is fast, but
- X windows is very slow. Is this FAQ material?
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- Jim
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