On Mon, 03 Jun 2002 03:50:58 +0100GMT, Laurie L Proud wrote: > Hi Gang,
> As Clarence remarked in a recent email that Arachne's graphics speed > needs all the help She can get, I would like to ask a question. > Better 386 and 486 machines post 1993 were designed assuming the use > of the Windoze GUI and therefore had a windows graphics accelerater > chip in the video system. Basicaly a floating point unit dedicated > for video use. This made a big difference, if the software supported > it. > How feasable would it be to use this hardware in Arachne. > I'm just interested. Not necessary. <g> *Any* "newer graphics chip" will do what's needed. My machine is a P150 circa 1995. It has an S3Trio64V+ chip right on the mother board. Arachne has no problem rendering very graphics intensive pages on this machine. However, over on the old 486DX2-66 with Trident 8900 vid card....... Now we're talking Sloooooowww rendering. So, As long as the machine has a "fast vid chip".... no problem. -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm http://www.thispagecannotbedisplayed.com/
