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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.apps:1014 comp.os.linux.misc:10771 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps,comp.os.linux.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: DOOM for X Message-ID: <hastyCMEw58.FMr@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <1994Mar3.131137.27311@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <CM44Lq.78x@seagoon.newcastle.edu.au> <2lkpg5$8hn@Tut.MsState.Edu> Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 19:15:07 GMT Lines: 28 In article <2lkpg5$8hn@Tut.MsState.Edu> simmons@EE.MsState.Edu writes: >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. > I really doubt that a direct access to a fast svga card on a local bus would compare in performance to the client-server model of X. If you ask me X is very, very broken in this respect. Amancio -- FREE unix, gcc, tcp/ip, X, open-look, interviews, tcl/tk, MIME, midi, sound at freebsd.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD Amancio Hasty, Consultant | Home: (415) 495-3046 | e-mail hasty@netcom.com | ftp-site depository of all my work: ahasty@cisco.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/X