Subject: Re: Xservers: which is better?
To: Ken Nakata <kenn@synap.ne.jp>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 06/02/1998 22:06:33
Ken Nakata wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Jun 1998 21:20:15 +0000,
> Mark DeArman <dearman@telebyte.com> wrote:
> > I was installing X windows on to my LCIII, 25Mhz 12MB Ram 730MB Hd
> > NetBSD 1.3.1, and had a question.
> > 
> > There are two Xservers for download on the MacBSD page.  One is XFree86
> > and the other is OSF.
> 
> Excuse me?  AFAIK, there are two servers (apparently Colin removed his
> Xmac68k_color from ftp.macbsd.com),

It wasn't me.  I have no idea where it went.  If anyone still wants it or
the source for it, please let me know.

> the one on ftp.netbsd.org is part
> of the official X distribution for NetBSD/mac68k, and the other on
> ftp.macbsd.com is my unofficial color server, codenamed `OSFA' which
> stands for "One Server Fits All".  Neither is exactly an XFree86
> server in real sense though NetBSD bases its X source on XFree86.  Nor
> is either related to Open Software Foundation in any sense.
> 
> > Which one of these is going to run faster in my situation?
> 
> Definitely the official one since it does only B&W.

Do you really think it's all that much faster?  Your code seems fast
enough to me :-)

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - PMD                 Intel Corporation
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