[Sunhelp] Sol8 on SS5-110

[Bill Bradford]

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.

Bill

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