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From: dleigh@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM (Darren Leigh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: X11 for Amiga
Summary: X and video
Message-ID: <3286@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM>
Date: 3 May 89 02:42:51 GMT
References: <722@boing.UUCP> <527@ncrorl.Orlando.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: dleigh@hplabs.UUCP (Darren Leigh)
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Organization: Open Fly Systems
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In article <527@ncrorl.Orlando.NCR.COM> anderson@ncrorl.Orlando.NCR.COM (Anderson) writes:
>In article <722@boing.UUCP>, dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck) writes:
>
>	I saw the Amiga X11 at XConnectathon in San Fran. earlier
>this year and was impressed with it. We ran our clients on it from 
>the NCR Towers we had, and everything worked that way it was supposed to
>work. While the amiga doesn't have as much horsepower as some of the
>big graphics workstation, the graphics chips help it to keep a decent
>pace.  Even when we ran a server-killer client, the amiga ran smoothly.

I saw it at the Xhibition last August.  The best part was that it was
running on a 500 with a genlock showing live video behind the windows.
Right next to the Boing booth was Parallax Graphics running live video
in an X window with their $8000 board set.  Ya' got balls, Dale.

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Darren Leigh
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