mason@oct1.UUCP (David Mason) (12/16/90)
>mason@oct1.UUCP (David Mason) writes: >> Can anybody tell me if a '387 makes a difference with ISC >> 2.2 X? > > I can't say, I have always had one in all the machines I own. ISC >claims it won't help much, as they borrowed some of X11 r4 and got rid >of most of the FP intensive stuff... This was confirmed to me in private mail from somebody with an ISC address. I wrote back asking permisson to quote on the net, but got nothing, so I'll summarise the gist of it. The importance of a numeric co-processor depends on if the X application requires it. In ISC X 1.2 server, the X11R4 arc and wideline code has been included in what is an X11R3 server, to eliminate almost all the floating point calculations in the server. -------------------- David Mason | "Strange the mind, mason@oct1.UUCP | that very fiery particle, "olsa99!oct1!mason"@ddsw1.MCS.COM | Should let itself be snuffed out ...!ddsw1!olsa99!oct1!mason | by an article." Byron