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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: Small X for 386 bsd?? Message-ID: <r!mngjk.hasty@netcom.com> Date: Fri, 04 Sep 92 02:28:49 GMT Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) References: <1992Aug31.214129.3861@news.uit.no> <80hnj7a.hasty@netcom.com> <N2XIFZ6@taronga.com> Lines: 28 In article <N2XIFZ6@taronga.com> peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <80hnj7a.hasty@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes: >>If you or anyone can come up with a better windowing system than X >>which enjoys such wide support not only on 386bsd but across many >>operating systems and that is FREE, Please let me know. > >MGR > >Anyone doing a port? I don't have 386BSD here, but a good windowing system >that didn't make a 486/50 seem less responsive then an Amiga 500 would >be a convincing argument... :-> I have an 486/33 is very responsive with X. Also, the performance problems in a PC are related to non-accelarated svga chip-sets and their 64k banking systems. For instance, the S3 is about 10 times faster than your regular vga. Is MGR a networked windowing system ? And does it have a graphics API? Amancio Hasty >-- > `-_-' > Have you hugged your wolf today? 'U` > >Peter da Silva, Taronga Park BBS, Houston, TX +1 713 568 0480/1032