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- Path: sparky!uunet!grebyn!daily!richk
- From: richk@grebyn.com (Richard Krehbiel)
- Subject: Re: S3 question - Amancio, are you there?
- In-Reply-To: stripes@pix.com's message of Mon, 28 Dec 1992 03:33:47 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.053423.3829@grebyn.com>
- Lines: 42
- Sender: richk@grebyn.com (Richard Krehbiel)
- Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
- References: <VIXIE.92Dec26034105@cognition.pa.dec.com> <1992Dec27.081525.29228@netcom.com>
- <Bzy9wD.9Ez@pix.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 05:34:23 GMT
-
- In article <Bzy9wD.9Ez@pix.com> stripes@pix.com (Josh Osborne) writes:
-
- > One problem with VESA LB and disk drives, (I think) VESA LB doesn't allow
- > bus mastering cards. For SCSI (at least) this could be quite useful. Of
-
- Not correct; VL-bus does permit a card to become the bus master.
-
- > The 34020 docs are available from TI, I have a set somewhere. The cross
- > compiler is quite expensiave, and the old version makes poor code. Someone
- > got a old gcc to work (more or less) with it. The 34020 is fairly quick,
- > I would like to see a 34020 running X on it :-) (I know it would be faster
- > to do most of the X stuff on the [34]86 and let the TI bang bits).
-
- At work I have the Pittsburg Powercomputing X11R4 server running on an
- Artist XJS 34020 card. The card has 2M VRAM and 5M program RAM. It's
- the fastest thing going, period. I wouldn't trade it for anything
- else for running X on a PC; not an S3 928, not a Mach 32.
-
- At home I have a Hercules Graphics Station, which is a 34010 card with
- 1M VRAM (shared with a VGA chip) and 2M program RAM. I bought it
- about a year and a half ago. I have all the programming specs, but no
- tools; no compiler, assembler, linker, loader, debugger, etc.
- Nowadays I run OS/2, but there is no sign of OS/2 TIGA drivers, from
- anyone. I'll probably end up selling it - unless I write my own
- drivers...
-
- I've run MetroLink X11 on my Hercules card, and it's speed is
- adequate, better than VGA, but nothing like my 34020 card. MetroLink
- is not asking much of the 34010 as far as I can tell; no more than
- simple blits & such, stuff that an 8514 does better. This card and
- the MetroLink server can do 640x480 in 32K colors.
-
- > The GUI accel's are doing better then the 34020 cards because they
- > are cheap, however I think you can build a 34020 card as cheap as
- > a S3, but nobody has.
-
- I seriously doubt you could make a 34020 card as cheap as an S3. I
- hope TI is working on something...
-
- I would imagine that the fixed function accellerators are doing better
- at Windows benchmarks because a Windows video driver doesn't have much
- functionality to provide; not like an X server.
- --
- Richard Krehbiel richk@grebyn.com
- OS/2 2.0 will do for me until AmigaDOS for the 386 comes along...
-