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From: Barnacle Wes <wes@intele.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SYSVSHM in 2.0.5R
Date: 28 Jul 1995 04:50:40 GMT
Organization: The briney, briney deep
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"Amancio Hasty, Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> wrote:
>Not sure if anyone mentioned this but one of the ways to improve X performance
>is to get a graphics accelerator like an Actix or #9 s3 based card. Also,
>a vlb or pci s3 based card can improve significantly certain X operations
>like drawing an image or reading an image .
Yes, and for the budget-concious, 1Mb DRAM VLB and PCI cards with S3/805
chip are available for around $100! I have one from Mitac -- while not
as fast as the S3/964 cards, it is still *significantly* faster than
i.e. Trident or Cirrus chipset cards, for a similar price. ;^)
--
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