gfr@cobra.mitre.org (Glenn Roberts) (02/14/89)
>This month "Unix Review" published a review of the Sun 386i which gave > an overall rating of average. ... What surprised me most however is > how slow the graphics really are on the Sun 386i. My own experience with the 386i does not agree with these benchmarks. We recently installed the DataViews graphics package on my 386i and it displays images to the screen noticeably faster than on our 3/60. An image containing about 3,000 vectors (US and states boundaries) displays about 30% to 40% faster by my quick and dirty measurements. I plan to try to do some more careful measurements of this performance difference. I'll post the results here. - Glenn Roberts, The MITRE Corp., McLean VA (703) 883-6820 gfr@cobra.mitre.org
peter@rutgers.edu (Peter DiPrete) (03/30/89)
I use a 386i/250 in my daily work. At first, I cursed the graphics, then we upgraded os to 4.0.1. It really helped. I still think that 386i s/w or basic architecture put a basic limit on the performance, but it is acceptable. For excellent performance, you'll have to look for graphics accelerators in the (hopefully near) future. Peter Di Prete NEC America 922-3829 ...!sun!snail!ernie!peter