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Article #1431Re: blits (was Open Look versus Motif, and it's effect on NeWS vs. X.)
From: Randell Jesup
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1990 01:56
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1990 01:56
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In article <90Feb20.084318est.1445@smoke.cs.toronto.edu> moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes) writes:
>Conceptually, it's the window system I like best, and its performance
>is outstanding -- it remains the only window system I know of that
>runs effectively over 9600 (or slower) baud serial lines, and runs
>faster on a 68000 based 1M platform than most X11 implementations on
>bigger hardware. (X11R4 is faster, I think, I've seen at least one
>blit fanatic work semi-contentedly on a Sun running X11:-)
Then again, a 1M (of non-display memory) 68000 Amiga can run X11 faster
than most suns can. Of course, having a hardware blitter and fast lightweight
tasks doesn't hurt.
Disclaimer: I work for Commodore.
--
Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!samsung!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cica!iuvax!rutgers!cbmvax!jesup From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc Subject: Re: blits (was Open Look versus Motif, and it's effect on NeWS vs. X.) Message-ID: <9776@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 22 Feb 90 01:56:33 GMT References: <1990Feb17.222156.21791@Solbourne.COM> <TQV1CHCxds13@ficc.uu.net> <90Feb20.084318est.1445@smoke.cs.toronto.edu> Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 18