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From: philb@cats.ucsc.edu (Philip Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: DOOM for X
Date: 10 Mar 1994 01:09:28 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
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In <hastyCMEw58.FMr@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:

>In article <2lkpg5$8hn@Tut.MsState.Edu> simmons@EE.MsState.Edu writes:
>>
>>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. 

X is just fine in this respect. That's what makes it a portable windowing
system, not "Yet Another Extension to DOS".
Quit the harshing on X until you see what can actually be done with it.
Methinks it sounds like DOOM will be done fairly soon.
["soon" being in two months or so?]

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Philip Brown, CIS major, UC Santa Cruz
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Winging my way out of academia soon...
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