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From: dwallach@soda.Berkeley.EDU (Dan Wallach)
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Subject: Re: display speed on color NeXTstation
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Well, I don't have solid numbers, but I did see one for a while.  Assuming
OpaqueMove-windows of NeXTstep 2.0 are some random example of graphics speed,
they were quite snappy, but not quite as nice as the B&W machines.  Hard to
guess, but I'd estimate 7-10 refreshes/sec for a typical terminal window,
which is pretty impressive.

This Apollo 4500 I'm on has 8 bitplanes and a 33MHz 68030 and can do maybe
2 refreshes/sec when you turn on OpaqueMove.

Don't know what, but they sure did SOMETHING right...

Dan