[Sunhelp] Sol8 on SS5-110

[Christopher J Ceska]

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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