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- Subject: Re: GEM/X
- Date: Fri, 21 Jan 1994 09:39:07 -0500 (EST)
- From: Chris Herborth <herborth@53iss6.waterloo.ncr.com>
- In-Reply-To: <m0pMO5r-0000vGC@sdf.lonestar.org> from "Evan K. Langlois" at Jan 18, 94 03:36:10 pm
- Message-Id: <9401210940.ae02894@ncrhub1.NCR.COM>
-
- What you wrote:
- > What about NeXT ? X uses by far the most CPU resources, and GEM the least,
- > so what about something in between .. like the NeXT GUI? It could be
- > simulated either by adding to GEM, or rewrite GEM to call NeXT-like objects.
-
- NeXTstep would he even worse than a simple X server on an ST or Falcon;
- Display PostScript is computationally expensive, and we don't have enough
- computrons to spread around. Have you seen how slow Ghostscript and
- Ultrascript (two PostScript emulators) are on a 68k? *shudder*
-
- I wonder if a virtual desktop for MGR would be possible, and how "slow"
- it would be? MGR is a pretty minimal (ie, fast and not too memory hogging)
- graphical environment... Maybe someone who's actually been using it
- (is Howard Chu on this list?) has been doing some work at making it more
- attractive to users?
-
- It's a pity Atari decided to put such a brain-dead MMU into the original
- ST. 4M isn't enough for all of this and a C compiler, let alone a C++
- compiler. :-(
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