lou@aramis.rutgers.edu (Lou Steinberg) (06/08/89)
We are contemplating buying a couple of sun 4/60's with color screens and
the GX graphics accelerator, but are hesitating a bit. We have an older
sun-4 without the accelerator, and find that doing window-related
operations (e.g. opening, moving, etc) is painfully slow, apparently
because there are so many bits to move. (We use primarily X windows, if
that matters.) Does anyone have experience with the GX accelerator? Does
it speed up the window operations appreciably?
Thanks.
Lou Steinberg
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arpa: lou@aramis.rutgers.edumende@athos.rutgers.edu (Bob Mende Pie) (06/17/89)
In article <3748@kalliope.rice.edu> lou@aramis.rutgers.edu (Lou Steinberg) writes: > We are contemplating buying a couple of sun 4/60's with color screens and > the GX graphics accelerator, but are hesitating a bit. We have an older > sun-4 without the accelerator, and find that doing window-related... Down at usenix I got to play with a Sun 4/330GX system running xnews beta2. I was *fully* impressed by the speed of it. Color ico with faces was as fast as bw wireframe ico on a 3/60. I did not try it on a non GX machine, but things did move on the one I played with. /Bob... --