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From: lou@aramis.rutgers.edu (Lou Steinberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: does graphics accelerator speed up color windows on sun-4
Keywords: Hardware
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Date: 8 Jun 89 04:30:07 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 21, message 5 of 5

We are contemplating buying a couple of sun 4/60's with color screens and
the GX graphics accelerator, but are hesitating a bit.  We have an older
sun-4 without the accelerator, and find that doing window-related
operations (e.g. opening, moving, etc) is painfully slow, apparently
because there are so many bits to move.  (We use primarily X windows, if
that matters.)  Does anyone have experience with the GX accelerator?  Does
it speed up the window operations appreciably?

Thanks.
Lou Steinberg

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