> 
> I ran X in black and white on a Sun 3/80 and that was acceptable performance. 
> Color was slow. Even on my friend's 486/40 Linux box, color X runs only 
> bearably. I would imagine that color internal and NuBus video will only be 
> a boon to people with 68040's. 
> 
I'm running the experimental color-X kit on (what I now know to be =) a
16MHz 030...  I run fvwm2, and have had two compiles running, a povray
render going, a digital clock and an xload in the corner going at the same
time.. and its really not *that* bad..  (just don't solid drag whole
windows, for goodness sake)

> However, after I finish the video driver I'd like to work on a color version
> of dt. This is sort of window dressing but it'll be nice to set the background
> and foreground colors. We can also get colored directories a la linux if a
> few other tools are updated.
> 
Great idea!  About color-ls, though:  I compiled and patched gnu ls to do 
color and can say from experience: even on a small dir, color lssing is 
2-3 times slower than without.. (without being ls -F)  *However*, gnu ls 
*without* color runs, on large dirs, 2-3 times *faster* than the default 
netbsd binary distribution.. go figure!  (And, according to 'time', it 
uses about 1/10 the system resources)


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