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From: colas@mirsa.inria.fr (Colas NAHABOO)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Faster color X for Sun-3s?
Message-ID: <169@mirsa.inria.fr>
Date: 2 May 89 16:41:20 GMT
References: <8904281800.AA00273@devnull.sun.com>
Organization: Koala Project -- BULL/INRIA
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From article <8904281800.AA00273@devnull.sun.com>, by dshr@SUN.COM (David Rosenthal):
> it is unlikely that anyone (Sun, MIT,  or a third party) would be able to
> provide a version of "mfb" that would provide radically better performance
> in a monochrome 4M machine.

Just for the record, the BULL DPX1000 Workstation X server, made by GIPSI
S.A. IS really faster than the MIT implementation. Just ask Bob Scheifler, 
he quoted it as "the fastest 68K-based X server" when he saw it at the OSF
UEC RFT in September. (and my server takes up less than 1meg, says "ps -l").

Of course, it was written by a truly outstanding programmer, Pieter Van Der
Linden, with such techniques as on-the fly generation of 68020 code, clever
use of the processor cache, etc... it really flies!

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