Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!ukc!acorn!unipalm!johnt From: johnt@unipalm.uucp (John Taylor) Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look Subject: Re: Openwin or X11R4 Message-ID: <1991Jun10.152029.11925@unipalm.uucp> Date: 10 Jun 91 15:20:29 GMT References: <1991May29.144727.5008@javelin.sim.es.com> <1991Jun01.232522.786@shawn.uucp> <1991Jun7.160030@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> Organization: Unipalm Ltd., Cambridge, England Lines: 20 stumpf@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Markus Stumpf) writes: >In article , jon@choctaw.b23b.ingr.com (Jon Stone) writes: >|> >|> You obviously have not compared xnews to Xsun on a machine running a >|> GX accelerator. MIT's server treats it as a dumb frame buffer (read >|> the source), whereas Sun's xnews seems to take full advantage of the >|> GX's capabilities. BTW, all our tests have been on SPARCstation 2's. >|> >Dunno, who good/bad it is, but there has been a patch in comp.windows.x >in the early days of X.V11R4. I haven't actually tested it, as we don't have >suns with GX here, but maybe it's useful for some of you out there! If you need a standard MIT server, but with GX performace, you need to use the XTech X Server from Unipalm. This is a standard MIT X11R4 server that has been modified to use the full performance benefits of the GX. You can contact Unipalm on +44 954 211797, or email xtech@unipalm.co.uk. JohnT johnt@unipalm.co.uk