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From: burzio@mmlai.UUCP (Tony Burzio)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X speed, accelarators
Summary: HP & 3D
Message-ID: <571@mmlai.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jul 89 13:44:51 GMT
References: <1042@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <1574@bacchus.dec.com> <SPENCER.89Jul15172912@spline.eecs.umich.edu>
Organization: Martin Marietta Labs, Baltimore, MD
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In article <SPENCER.89Jul15172912@spline.eecs.umich.edu>, spencer@eecs.umich.edu (Spencer W. Thomas) writes:
> In my experience, the HP X11 servers already take advantage of
> installed (2D) accellerators (can't use 3D accellerators because X is
> inherently 2D). 

Actually, my HP 370 with a TurboSRX graphics device allows X to grab up
to eight 3D hardware windows and talk to it via their 3D starbase graphics
routines.  Of course, you are limited to making the program work on the
TurboSRX, but this is very good while 3D X gets hammered out.

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Tony Burzio               * A TurboSRX is SERIOUS overkill for X :-)
Martin Marietta Labs      *
mmlai!burzio@uunet.uu.net * Kind of like a Porshe...
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