hardware requirements [for ISC X 1.2]

[David Mason]

>mason at oct1.UUCP (David Mason) writes:
>> Can anybody tell me if a '387 makes a difference with ISC
>> 2.2 X?
>
> I can't say, I have always had one in all the machines I own. ISC
>claims it won't help much, as they borrowed some of X11 r4 and got rid
>of most of the FP intensive stuff...

This was confirmed to me in private mail from somebody with an ISC
address.  I wrote back asking permisson to quote on the net, but got
nothing, so I'll summarise the gist of it.

The importance of a numeric co-processor depends on if the X application
requires it.  In ISC X 1.2 server, the X11R4 arc and wideline code has
been included in what is an X11R3 server, to eliminate almost all the
floating point calculations in the server.
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