-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dieter wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, James Richard Tyrer writes: > >> So, as I said, you don't need a powerful processor just to run >> the X server. > > Some early X terminals used a 68k and were fast enough. >
Sun 3/x series... Usually a 68020 IIRC. I had one for ages, just running SunOS4 & an XServer. Purely used as an XTerminal. Dirt cheap at the time too. But they did only do 1152x900 or some strange resolution (Can't quite remember what the vertical was). They were also (Usually) 256 colours (8bit lookup table), and 60Hz. (Although IIRC we did have a couple that were more colours, they were an expensive graphics adapter. They weren't exactly speed merchants though. Even at that low resolution & colour depth... No eye candy either... Opaque wndow dragging would really kill them. I think NCD used 68k's as well. Also fairly low res (For nowdays). But did go a lot quicker, probably because they really were dedicated... Even so, my 5 year old laptop with 1400x1050 32bit colour, un-accelerated graphics (r128) under Linux is several times faster... H -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEm7X0/3QXwQQkZYwRAgxJAKCZDhO7Ksh4P0lAmpd7xh6RNAj1nQCfVVaZ uiCr1pz8rESEM5UMzuJlyAk= =xGc2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
