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From: casey@admin.cognet.ucla.edu (Casey Leedom)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Speeding up the X server on sun3's
Summary: Please release MegaTek's speed enhancements for the Sun server
Keywords: Sun server speed, MegaTek's proprietary enhancements, X philosophy?
Message-ID: <16896@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>
Date: 17 Oct 88 23:20:17 GMT
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| From: rgs@corona.megatek.uucp (Rusty Sanders)
| 
| | From: devin@topologixtopologix.com (Devin Hooker)
| | 
| | I have seen discussion about speeding up the x server on sun 3's, and I
| | was wondering how to do this?
| 
| [lot of good information on how to speed up the color Sun X server]
| 
| I wish that I could contribute the stuff I've done to get good speed out
| of the server, but my company (rightly so) believes it's proprietary.
| Guess you'll just have to buy our sun based system :-).
| 
| I suspect the reason that nobody's gone and contributed a faster version
| of X for the sun is that it's non trivial to get there (actually, for any
| cfb based system).  Any company which invests the effort will probably want
| to keep that advantage.  At the moment, then, your only option is to roll
| up your sleeves and dig in to it.

  I don't mean to start a flame war here, so please take my comments in
the ``questioning mode'' that they're offered.

  It strikes me that MegaTek got an awful lot of free software (X11) on
which to base their speeded up SUn server work.  Much of that free
software was even donated by some of their competitors.  Is it really
fair to hold out on the improvements that they've made?  After all,
everyone else across the net is donating the fixes and improvements they
make to the X11 distribution (which again MegaTek benefits from).

  Thanks for all the hints on how to speed up the Sun server, but I hope
that MegaTek reconsiders their position on releasing your work.  This is
especially true if, as you hint, some of the improvements are applicable
to any cfb based server.

Casey

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