[Sunhelp] Sol8 on SS5-110

[Kevin Stevens]

That's what I thought, too, but I didn't want to actually JAM my foot down my
throat.  Could someone clarify?

BTW, Chris, I'd be interested in hearing your alternate wm experience, you can
take it offline if it's not of general interest.

KeS

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> Behalf Of Christopher J Ceska
> Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 20:47
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [Sunhelp] Sol8 on SS5-110
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>
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> 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
>
> On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 08:36:04PM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> > On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 05:21:37PM -0700, Kevin Stevens wrote:
> > > A default installation of 2.6 on a SS20 w/128MB, SM61, and
> CGsomething is very
> > > noticeably snappier than a default installation of 2.8 on a SS20 w/128MB,
> > > 2xSM61, and internal 8MB SX framebuffer.  Everything is quicker,
> login to CDE is
> > > about 8 seconds vs 16.
> > > KeS
> >
> > One reason for that is that the CG<something> is about 2x as fast as the
> > internal 24-bit SX framebuffer.
> >
> > Bill
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