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From: burzio@mmlai.UUCP (Tony Burzio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: X in overlay planes on HP SRX machines.
Summary: X11 and Starbase Acceleration
Message-ID: <634@mmlai.UUCP>
Date: 19 Dec 89 14:34:56 GMT
References: <2641@caesar.cs.montana.edu> <350022@hpfcdq.HP.COM>
Organization: Martin Marietta Labs, Baltimore, MD
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In article <350022@hpfcdq.HP.COM>, brown@hpfcdq.HP.COM (John Brown) writes:
> . . . The HP98721A accelerator is not supported by Starbase within an
> X11 window; it can, however, be used to accelerate raw mode graphics in the
> image planes with the X11 server in overlay mode.

I have been looking at Silicon Graphics computers lately and I am
much more impressed by their handling of 3D objects in EVERY window,
not just the 8 MOMA windows of my TurboSRX.  In addition, when I use
3D acceleration on my TSRX, I use the overlay planes, which limits
my color choices severely (16?)  Bleech!

To really be useful, the SuperChargedSRX (the next SRX?) should have
a full 256 color choices in the overlay planes.  Perhaps the CH hardware
can be moved over and merged with the SRX?

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