[Sunhelp] Sol8 on SS5-110

[Christopher J Ceska]

On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 11:16:50PM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 11:46:34PM -0400, Christopher J Ceska wrote:
> > I thought the built in SX on the 20 is faster than any sbus framebuffer
> > that will fit in the 20.  I beleive this is confirmed in the framebuffer
> > faq.  The reason is that the SX uses the memory bus, versus the slow
> > sbus.  I have a 20 at work with 2xTMS390z55, 256meg ram, and a 4meg SX
> > memory card, recently I upgraded from 2.7 to 2.8 and noticed no real
> > differance.  I don't use cde, or dtlogin because they are slow and ugly.
> > I used either afterstep 1.0 or twm, it feels like I didnt even upgrade.  
> > -chris
> 
> Maybe with 8-bit, but when running a full 24-bit WindowMaker desktop/
> window manager, you can watch windows redraw / desktops flip, and its
> at least half as fast as a cg6.
> 

cause windowmaker is bloated trash, you cannot blame the buffer for poor
software.

-chris

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