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From: simmons@EE.MsState.Edu (David Simmons)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: DOOM for X
Date: 9 Mar 1994 15:20:37 GMT
Organization: Mississippi State University Electrical Engineering
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In article <CM44Lq.78x@seagoon.newcastle.edu.au>,
Pat Breen <c9220321@sage.newcastle.edu.au> wrote:
>: I mailed him, and he said that although he's working under Linux, he wants the
>: port to be a generic X11 port, rather than a Linux specific port.  Hence not
>: using svgalib.
>
>Hmmm... I spose for the average Linux user, that aint so good...
>Anyone interested in possibly getting an svgalib version going - would
>anyone consider it for speed's sake??

The X version should be just as fast as an svgalib version, because
David Taylor is using the shared memory extentions of X.  Hence,
no real need for an svga version.

David

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