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From: napier@theory.chem.ubc.ca (Duncan Napier)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Sometimes you need X server source (Was: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium)
Date: 29 Mar 1996 21:36:57 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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In article <ROELL.96Mar28184328@blah.xinside.com> roell@xinside.com (Thomas Roell) writes:
>[snipped]
>
>>   Lets say I wanted to disable TCP connects to the X server because I am using
>>   a standalone PC with a network connection.   Can I do that with Xinside?
>
>Yes, there are options which allow you to do exactly this. And if it
>wouldn't then there is a new binary within a day if there are special
>requirements like this. Remember that you pay for the product and
>therefor get support.
>[stuff deleted]
>

This would constitute an extrordinary level of customer support, the likes of
 which I have never personally encountered ... I'll give Xinside the benefit of
 the doubt here.

>[snip]
>software. They spend huge amounts of money for their graphics card,
>just to get half of the possible performance because they have to run
>XF86. If one is smart instead buy a decently fast graphics card that
>is optimally supported by Accelertaed-X and you will save money and
>get a faster overally solution. I'm just starting to get frustrated
>that even reasonable bright people seem to have a mental barrier to
>realize this.

Can you qualify this with some benchmark results (or point us the way to some)?
 I'm not trying to be the peanut gallery here, but I would be interested to
 see some evidence for this.

			Respectfully,

			Duncan Napier.