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From: randy@erik.UUCP (Randy Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Does TIGA support X server well?
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Date: 1 Aug 89 17:24:29 GMT
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We are board-level integrators, making some of our own special-purpose
boards (some of them very special purpose indeed... ) but preferring to
buy display subsystems.  TI340x0 board vendors are proposing to us that
we should use boards with TIGA interface to support an X server.  X
performance, especially with large 8-bit pseudocolor images, is
important to us, normalized by cost limitations that keep our cpu cards
down well under $10k (no sneers, please).  Porting costs prohibit simply
trying everything out!  Would any server writers care to comment on the
closeness of fit between TIGA and the primitives that X servers
require?  How preferable would it be to use a board with a general
purpose cpu as well, in order to better partition the workload between
the main cpu (which has many other things to do) and the graphics
card?