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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.apps:1035 comp.os.linux.misc:10925 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!cats.ucsc.edu!philb From: philb@cats.ucsc.edu (Philip Brown) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: DOOM for X Date: 10 Mar 1994 01:09:28 GMT Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz Lines: 26 Message-ID: <2lls08$s7j@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> References: <1994Mar3.131137.27311@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <CM44Lq.78x@seagoon.newcastle.edu.au> <2lkpg5$8hn@Tut.MsState.Edu> <hastyCMEw58.FMr@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: am.ucsc.edu X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #1 (NOV) In <hastyCMEw58.FMr@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes: >In article <2lkpg5$8hn@Tut.MsState.Edu> simmons@EE.MsState.Edu writes: >> >>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. >> >I really doubt that a direct access to a fast svga card on a local bus would >compare in performance to the client-server model of X. >If you ask me X is very, very broken in this respect. X is just fine in this respect. That's what makes it a portable windowing system, not "Yet Another Extension to DOS". Quit the harshing on X until you see what can actually be done with it. Methinks it sounds like DOOM will be done fairly soon. ["soon" being in two months or so?] -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Philip Brown, CIS major, UC Santa Cruz Author of "kdrill", and "xmandel" Winging my way out of academia soon... philb@cats.ucsc.edu philb@soda.berkeley.edu