Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 14:06:29 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: direct access to video card Message-ID: <199603091306.OAA00163@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199603080735.KAA21388@localhost> from "Alexey Pialkin" at Mar 8, 96 10:35:44 am
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As Alexey Pialkin wrote: > > X does even run on my 386/16 with 5 MB. > > > > As long as you only want the functionality you've been describing, who > > tells you that you gotta start ten xterms, a window manager, a > > Netscape, and an Emacs? > > > > X-s - are nice until i start to develop something :(( Looks like someone > get 2-5 mb RAM from my computer :((( No RAM, only VM space. Of course, if your machine is slow, you should not develop under X11. :) Instead, switch away to a text-mode VT, and the pager will happily page out your X11 stuff into the swap while you are developing. > Hmm.. I don't like X-s at all. May be they are nice for Netscaping - but > in game/demo modeling they are zero. IMHO. I'm rarely using Netcrap. However, i certainly wouldn't consider running a non-X11 game (even if you should care to port it so that it does also run on my ELSA Winner 1000 EISA card), since this means i'd have to leave my normal desktop. Did you ever think about that more and more people are using X11 anyways, not only for Netcrap? To the very least, X11 provides you with a fine abstraction layer from the hardware, and you can let it up to others to adapt this abstraction layer to the fancy new kind of hardware that's popping up on the market each day. (And oh well, it takes several dozens of people to keep up with this.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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