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From: mende@athos.rutgers.edu (Bob Mende Pie)
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Subject: Re: does graphics accelerator speed up color windows on sun-4
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In article <3748@kalliope.rice.edu> lou@aramis.rutgers.edu (Lou Steinberg)
writes:
> 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...

Down at usenix I got to play with a Sun 4/330GX system running xnews beta2.
I was *fully* impressed by the speed of it.    Color ico with faces was as
fast as bw wireframe ico on a 3/60.   I did not try it on a non GX machine,
but things did move on the one I played with.

					/Bob...
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