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- From: glenn@cs.utexas.edu (Glenn G. Lai)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
- Subject: Re: XS3 ?
- Date: 21 Dec 1992 12:04:08 -0600
- Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
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- > How much is the S3 card and server faster than Et4000 and XFree86 ?
- > For Windows I know it is 10-20 time faster. Is the same for X ?
- > Does xterm scroll in a reasonable way in XS3 ?
-
- If you're talking about scrolling speed, "10-20 time faster" is overly
- exaggerated. Here are the scrolling numbers from xbench for an Orchid
- ProII and a Diamond Stealth (55-MHz 86C911) on the same 33-MHz 386 machine:
-
- ProII: 1481901 Pixels/sec
- Stealth: 11685333 Pixels/sec
-
- FYI, even 20 or 30 million pixels/sec isn't fantastically fast, either. But
- my standards usually far exceed the current state of the art. :-)
-
- > Does every S3 based card work with XS3 ?
- > Can anyone suggest me a fast and common S3 card for XS3 ?
-
- Try an Actix or Orchid card. The XS3 people use them, so you should have
- the least trouble.
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-
-
- Glenn
- glenn@cs.utexas.edu
-