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From: envbvs@epb2.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith)
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Subject: Re: X11R4 on new DECstations?
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Date: 28 Mar 90 17:23:27 GMT
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In article <6948@decvax.dec.com>, evans@testmax.zk3.dec.com (Marc Evans
Ultrix Q/A) writes:
|> In article <260E3FB1.4748@orion.oac.uci.edu>, iglesias@orion.oac.uci.edu
|> (Mike Iglesias) writes:
|> > 
|> > Does anybody have any information about whether X11R4 will run on the
|> > soon-to-be-announced (and widely talked about in the trade rags) 
|> > DECstation 5000s?
|> > 
|> 
|> X11R4 as compiled for a color PMAX (DS3100) will run without changes on the
|> 3MAX (DS5000), assuming that it is the version of the 3MAX which does not
|> include any hardware accelerators for the graphics (which the first flavor
|> released is). Later versions may/will likely have problems because of the
|> accelerators.
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^ 

Allright, DEC, let's here the explanation for this.
A few months ago, there was a big discussion about why the DECstations
didn't use any graphics accellerators because of the speed of the CPU,
memory, etc. traded off against the cost of developing a specialized 
graphics chip.

What's the deal?  1/2 :-)

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Brian V. Smith    (bvsmith@lbl.gov)
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
I don't speak for LBL, these non-opinions are all mine.