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- From: lupe@ukw.uucp (Lupe Christoph)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Subject: Re: SPARCstation 10 Graphics Options
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.090305.2211@ukw.uucp>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 09:03:05 GMT
- References: <1992Nov18.012154.13827@newsroom.utas.edu.au> <BxxAGD.4J6@acsu.buffalo.edu>
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- jcmurphy@acsu.buffalo.edu (Jeff Murphy) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Nov18.012154.13827@newsroom.utas.edu.au> winter@sol.surv.utas.edu.au (Derek Winter) writes:
- >>Hello All,
- >>
- >>these are outlined as shown below, BUT this does not mean a great deal to me.
- >>Could some one please explain what the asterisked (*) terms mean, and what
- >>practical significance they have? i.e. what real benefits are there from movin
- >>from GX -> GXPlus -> GS -> GT?
-
- > The asterisks appear to denote the differences in the next higher
- >graphics chip. I.e. it shows you what extras you get by choosing the next
- >higher model of the chip.
- > The real benefits are speed. The higher model of chip you select,
- >the more tasks it takes over from the cpu... such as the top of the line
- >GT will support on-chip antialiasing, double buffering, solid shading, etc
- >etc.. where as if you got the GX, the cpu would have to handle all of those
- >tasks (which would seriously impede it's performance if you had many tasks
- >attempting to do them).
-
- I guess Derek Winter put those asterisks there to denote things he
- would like to have explained. And he wasn't redundant with them, putting
- them only on the framebuffer they appeared on first.
-
- The benefit is speed only if you want to do 3D graphics. I don't
- have the performance data, but it is entirely imagineable that the
- GT is much slower with Open Windows than the lowly GX.
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