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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.apps:992 comp.os.linux.misc:10478 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!emory!nntp.msstate.edu!simmons From: simmons@EE.MsState.Edu (David Simmons) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: DOOM for X Date: 9 Mar 1994 15:20:37 GMT Organization: Mississippi State University Electrical Engineering Lines: 20 Message-ID: <2lkpg5$8hn@Tut.MsState.Edu> References: <2jf56m$7r@u.cc.utah.edu> <CM24Hn.6CJ@rex.uokhsc.edu> <1994Mar3.131137.27311@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <CM44Lq.78x@seagoon.newcastle.edu.au> Reply-To: simmons@EE.MsState.Edu NNTP-Posting-Host: fury.ee.msstate.edu In article <CM44Lq.78x@seagoon.newcastle.edu.au>, Pat Breen <c9220321@sage.newcastle.edu.au> wrote: >: I mailed him, and he said that although he's working under Linux, he wants the >: port to be a generic X11 port, rather than a Linux specific port. Hence not >: using svgalib. > >Hmmm... I spose for the average Linux user, that aint so good... >Anyone interested in possibly getting an svgalib version going - would >anyone consider it for speed's sake?? 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. David -- David Simmons, System Administrator simmons@ee.msstate.edu Mississippi State University Electrical and Computer Engineering Visit my home page! http://www.msstate.edu/~dls3/