X performance improved more by?

Larry Snyder larry at nstar.rn.com
Fri Jan 4 11:21:37 AEST 1991


richard at xanth.ingr.com (Richard Griffiths ) writes:

>I would like to improve the performance of X on my 25mhz 386.  I
>currently have 8mb of memory, a high res VGA, and am running ESIX rev.
>D.  My question is, what will give me more of an X performance boost? 
>Added an 80387 math co-processor, or adding more ram?   A scarcity of
>funds makes this an either or question. 

I would suggest getting a different vendors release of X and
a smart graphics board.  ESIX's X is known to be quite slow..

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