Subject: Re[2]: New to the List, X on A1200 with NetBSD?
To: Alexander Sorg <handtuch@smaug.fh-regensburg.de>
From: None <Tom.Stock@gsbsc.gensig.com>
List: port-amiga
Date: 01/16/1997 08:29:08
Are the graphics slower due to the conversion on the amiga or does NetBSD take
advantage of the amiga (aga) chipset?
Thanks everyone!
-tom
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Subject: Re: New to the List, X on A1200 with NetBSD?
Author: Alexander Sorg <handtuch@smaug.fh-regensburg.de> at Internet2
Date: 1/16/97 12:01 PM
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997 Tom.Stock@gsbsc.gensig.com wrote:
> Hi, I'm both new to the list and new to NetBSD for the amiga. I just
Great!
> I'd like to take a shot at running X Windows also, and was wondering
> if someone could tell me what kind of performance I can expect from X
> Windows on my Amiga. The FAQ recommends at least 6MB of RAM, so I
> should be ok.
I ran X under NetBSD on my A1K2 with a Blizzard1230-IV Turboboard and 8MB
Fast-Ram. It worked fine but did really a lot of swapping. If you want,
you can work with it. But for compiling and such stuff I changed back to
the login-shell and using a program like 'screen' or something like that
(windows is neat :) Now I exchanged one of my 4MB Simms to a 16MB Simm and
now X really is fun. The swapping has reduced to a minimum and you reall
can work fine with it. At todays prizes for memory upgrading or not should
be no question. Do it!
>
> Is there alot of good free software for NetBSD/Amiga?
Absolutely YES.
Have fun,
Alex.
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