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Dieter wrote:
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> In message <449ADFA1.3020303@acm.org>, James Richard Tyrer writes:
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>> So, as I said, you don't need a powerful processor just to run
>> the X server.
>
> Some early X terminals used a 68k and were fast enough.
>

Sun 3/x series... Usually a 68020 IIRC. I had one for ages, just
running SunOS4 & an XServer. Purely used as an XTerminal. Dirt cheap
at the time too. But they did only do 1152x900 or some strange
resolution (Can't quite remember what the vertical was).

They were also (Usually) 256 colours (8bit lookup table), and 60Hz.
(Although IIRC we did have a couple that were more colours, they were
an expensive graphics adapter.

They weren't exactly speed merchants though. Even at that low
resolution & colour depth... No eye candy either... Opaque wndow
dragging would really kill them.

I think NCD used 68k's as well. Also fairly low res (For nowdays). But
did go a lot quicker, probably because they really were dedicated...
Even so, my 5 year old laptop with 1400x1050 32bit colour,
un-accelerated graphics (r128) under Linux is several times faster...


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