vpix in xterm under X11R4

[Thomas Roell]

>For "hobby" work, or light X usage, Tom's port to the ET-4000 looks very
>good.  The card out to be in the $300 range with RAM, and the software
>is free.  If you go for 1152x900, you'll need a monitor as good as the
>GPX, but you could also use a 800x600 monitor (I use NEC 3D) which is
>lots cheaper.  I have not seen this on a slow machine yet (less than
>25MHz 486 - I have a warped perspective of "slow machine" :-), but in
>800x600 256color mode the ET-4000 should work fine for most cases.  The
>ET-4000 is very fast: slower video cards may not be so quick.

Well, let's look at some numbers. There is a good X11 performance test, which
is very popular here in germay. It's called xbench. The final result of it is
call xstones. This higher that number is the faster X11 is.

SparcStation 1, cg2 color-framebuffer, 1152x900, 256 colors:  3424       
386, 33MHz, No 387, 8Megs, ET4000 board ($250) 1024x768x256:  5960

Any comments ?

- Thomas
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