Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: How does the i860 compare as a graphics (co)processor?
Message-ID: <1989Mar25.222551.9141@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <21971@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <977@quintus.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 89 22:25:51 GMT

In article <977@quintus.UUCP> lawrence@quintus.UUCP (Lawrence Byrd) writes:
>This question is motivated by the increasing complexity of window systems
>and the obvious need for ways of speeding them up.  It is depressing that
>one needs a system in the 5 to 10 MIP range before the newer window systems
>(such as various toolkits on top of X) start responding crisply...

The cynic would say that we need less-baroque window systems.  The one on
AT&T's Blit responds crisply with a lousy little 68000 running it.

Now that we've got RISC hardware, the next thing we need is operating
systems and window systems to match.
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