Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #440
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Date:     Fri, 17 Dec 93 00:13:17 EST

Linux-Misc Digest #440, Volume #1                Fri, 17 Dec 93 00:13:17 EST

Contents:
  Re: terminal specs needed (al-b@minster.york.ac.uk)
  Re: Windows emulation  was Re: Microsoft Invented Inferior Personal C (Craig Lewis)
  Re: Windows emulation  was Re: Microsoft Invented Inferior Personal C (Mike Dahmus)
  SURVEY: Graphics card benchmarks under XFree86 (Farrell McKay)

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From: al-b@minster.york.ac.uk
Subject: Re: terminal specs needed
Date: 16 Dec 1993 13:28:52 GMT

In article <755994872.0@freudsys.iaf>,
Renee Teunissen <Renee.Teunissen@freudsys.iaf.nl> wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
>Just a few weeks ago I bought two TeleVideo termnials (model tvi955 and one looks like a 924) at a dumpstore, but the (statndard) linux termcap entries do not work well. Can anyone help me with the termcap entries of these terminals or konws an (email) address where I can get the terminal specs..

Me too! I got a TeleVideo 910+ yesterday. I grabbed a tvi912 termcap
entry from our server which works reasonably well, but vi is still
a real bugger... :-)

We've also got termcaps for tvi925 and tvi950 I could prob. mail you
if you're interested.

Meanwhile I'm looking for any info on my 910+, as I didn't get any
docs with it. (At least it had a note on the side mentioning the set
baudrate, parity, stop bits and all that!)

Andrew.


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Crossposted-To: alt.folklore.computers,alt.religion.kibology,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,alt.fan.mike-dahmus
From: craig@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Craig Lewis)
Subject: Re: Windows emulation  was Re: Microsoft Invented Inferior Personal C
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1993 00:35:47 GMT

In article <2eqrms$m3c@hobbes.cc.uga.edu> mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington) writes:
>
>Setup error.  Add an appropriate EMMexclude= command to system.ini to keep
>Windows from conflicting with your Ethernet card.

That might help, but it's not my job.  They've got one system.ini that the
the whole PC network uses.  Might be nice, but impossible.

>
>We have machines that have been running Windows for weeks, with heavy use,
>without rebooting.
>

Talk to Purdue...

-- 
Craig                                               Craig@Sage.Cc.Purdue.Edu
"I've made up my mind, don't confuse me with the facts".
   -US Representative Earl F. Landgreeb, on record.

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Crossposted-To: alt.folklore.computers,alt.religion.kibology,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,alt.fan.mike-dahmus
From: mike@schleppo.bocaraton.ibm.com (Mike Dahmus)
Subject: Re: Windows emulation  was Re: Microsoft Invented Inferior Personal C
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1993 21:48:24 GMT
Reply-To: miked@vnet.ibm.com (Mike Dahmus)

In <2eqhb1$3mr@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>, tso@cephalo.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu (Dan Ts'o) writes:
>
>       I guess it isn't obvious although it seems like it should be -- when I
>mean session (and I assume the original poster also), I mean a user session,
>that is, in the morning, I sit down at my desk and try to get some work done,
>writing or drawing or whatever, for that day. I have had dozens of Windows
>crashes per session. The times that UNIX has crashed even once during a session,
>over a 15 year period, I could count on one hand.

Yes, but (and I can't believe I'm defending Windows :+) I *often* locked up
X-Windows on one system to the point where I had to telnet in from another
box and kill it. Windows to X-Windows is at least a more accurate (but still
not very accurate) comparison than Windows to UNIX.

======
Mike Dahmus                                       Internet: miked@vnet.ibm.com
Pen for OS/2 Development, IBM PSP         IBM: mike@schleppo.bocaraton.ibm.com
Disclaimer: Not an official IBM spokesman            IBM Vnet: MDAHMUS at BOCA


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Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.benchmarks,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.help
From: fbm@newt.phys.unsw.edu.au (Farrell McKay)
Subject: SURVEY: Graphics card benchmarks under XFree86
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1993 21:44:21 GMT

Archive-name: xfree86-benchmarks
Version: $Id: xfree86-benchmarks,v 1.2 1993/12/16 03:08:07 fbm Exp $

These are the first results from a survey of graphics cards under XFree86.

The idea of the survey is to collect and compile a comprehensive set
of benchmark results, obtained by running "xbench" on all the main
graphics cards.  Some people don't believe in benchmarks, some do.
For those that do, read on!

The results received are in two sections - summary and detail.
The summary results distill the essence of the survey into single line
entries.  The entries are grouped by XFree86 release number, and ranked
in decreasing 'xstone' order (last column) within each group.
Ranking by xstones is a bit arbitrary.  It is instructive to examine
all the other columns too.

The detailed entries are listed in the same order as the summary entries.

This survey is still in its early days.  We need *lots* more results
before it will become useful.  Figures for the other XFree86 servers
(e.g. XF86_Mono, XF86_8514, XF86_Mach32 etc.), other display cards,
and other resolutions are still missing.  Hopefully this posting will
stimulate more XFree86 users into action.

If you use XFree86 on a 386 or 486 system, you can help us out.
Get yourself a copy of xbench, run it on your machine, fill in the blank
form at the end of this posting, and mail it back to me.  The xbench
*summary* figures are probably enough for this exercise.  I will
summarize and post the results as they become available.

XBench is available by ftp from hundreds of archive sites around the world,
e.g.
        pith.uoregon.edu:/pub/src/X11/xbench.tar.gz
        ftp.physics.su.oz.au:/xbench/xbench.tar.gz
        lth.se:/pub/netnews/sources.x/volume3/xbench/...

and many more (check out archie for your nearest site).
It includes instructions about compiling and running the program,
and some example results.  To run the benchmark, read the README file,
edit the script.run file, then type:
        xset s off                      (turn off the screen saver)
        xbench -ask < script.run > results/YOURFILE     (go get a coffee)
        awk -f scripts/xstones.awk < results/YOURFILE

Lets see who has the fastest, hottest XFree86 system around.

Farrell.
--
Farrell McKay.     Email: fbm@newt.phys.unsw.edu.au      Phone: +61 2 339-3683
========================== Summary Results =====================================

-- Hware --- XFree Res Dot Display card             ln fll blt arc txt cplx xstn
CPU-Clk  Mem Srvr  P V Clk                          ---------- 000's -----------

========================== XFree86 2.0 =========================================
486DX2-66 16 S3    B B 85  #9GXE Level 12           412  81  65 2872 196 157 130
486DX-33  16 S3    A A 110 Actix Ultra+             203  71  65 3056 132  84 102
486DX-40   8 S3    E C 40  Taiwan VLB S3-805        299  56  48 3897 142  91  92
486DX-33  16 S3    D D 75  Orchid Fahrenht VA       252  45  40 3150 118  85  76
486DX2-66 16 S3            STB Powergraph VL-24     337  50  42 3678  45 106  62
486DX2-66 32 S3    D D 75  Orchid Fahrenht 1280+    232  32  27 2713  94  65  56
486DX2-66  4 SVGA  D D 65  Cirrus Logic 5426        116  13   7 1572  94  25  21
486DX-33   8       D D 65  Trident 8900C             55   3   2  582  39   4   5

========================== XFree86 1.3 =========================================
486DX2-66 16 SVGA  E E 36  Boca Rsrch ET4000         84   4   3 1118  85   7   7

========================== XFree86 1.2 =========================================
486DX-33   8 SVGA  D D 60  Diam. Speedstar+          86   9   4 1380  83  13  13

Key to resolutions (P=Physical, V=Virtual)

A = 1280x1024
B = 1152x900
C = 1024x1024
D = 1024x768
E = 800x600

========================== Detailed Results ====================================
CPU (386/486 SX/DX)     : 486DX2-66MHz
Motherboard Memory      : 16 MBytes

Card Vendor             : Number Nine
Card Model              : GXE Level 12
Card Bus (ISA/EISA/VLB) : VLB
Chipset                 : S3C928
Video Memory            : 3 MBytes
Memory Type (DRAM/VRAM) : 2 MBytes VRAM, 1MByte DRAM
Memory Speed            : 70ns
Clock Chip              : ICD2061A
RAMDAC                  : Bt485

Operating system        : Unix SysV R4
XFree86 release, server : 2.0, XF86_S3

Physical resolution     : 1152x900
Virtual resolution      : 1152x900
Dot-clock used          : 85 MHz

XBench lines            :  412357
XBench fills            :   80876
XBench blits            :   64567
XBench arcs             : 2872330
XBench texts            :  196281
XBench complex          :  157058
XBench xstones          :  129705

Submitted by            : edhall@rand.org (Ed Hall)
Date stamp              : Wed, 8 Dec 93 08:22:16 PST
================================================================================
CPU (386/486 SX/DX)     : 486DX-33MHz
Motherboard Memory      : 16 MBytes

Card Vendor             : Actix
Card Model              : Ultra+
Card Bus (ISA/EISA/VLB) : ISA
Chipset                 : S3-928
Video Memory            : 2 MBytes
Memory Type (DRAM/VRAM) : VRAM
Memory Speed            : 90ns
Clock Chip              : 110 MHz
RAMDAC                  : AT&T

Operating system        : Linux, 0.99 pl14
XFree86 release, server : 2.0, XF86_S3

Physical resolution     : 1280x1024
Virtual resolution      : 1280x1024
Dot-clock used          : 110 Mhz

XBench lines            :  202906
XBench fills            :   70844
XBench blits            :   65329
XBench arcs             : 3055965
XBench texts            :  132187
XBench complex          :   83529
XBench xstones          :  101825

Submitted by            : kem@zoyd.prl.ufl.edu (Kelly Murray)
Date stamp              : Wed, 08 Dec 1993 13:38:49 
================================================================================
CPU (386/486 SX/DX)     : AMD 486DX-40MHz
Motherboard Memory      : 8 MBytes

Card Vendor             : Taiwan
Card Model              : Windows Accelerator
Card Bus (ISA/EISA/VLB) : VLB
Chipset                 : S3-805
Video Memory            : 1 MByte
Memory Type (DRAM/VRAM) : DRAM
Memory Speed            : 45 ns
Clock Chip              : 9335S
RAMDAC                  : ATT20C491-11

Operating system        : Linux 0.99 pl13
XFree86 release, server : 2.0, XF86_S3

Physical resolution     : 800x600
Virtual resolution      : 1024x1024
Dot-clock used          : 40 MHz

XBench lines            :  299064
XBench fills            :   55999
XBench blits            :   48486
XBench arcs             : 3897382
XBench texts            :  141625
XBench complex          :   91437
XBench xstones          :   92000

Submitted by            : burkhard@radix2.mpi-stuttgart.mpg.de (Armin Burkhardt)
Date stamp              : Thu, 9 Dec 1993 09:51:21
================================================================================
CPU (386/486 SX/DX)     : 486DX-33MHz
Motherboard Memory      : 16 MBytes 70 ns

Card Vendor             : Orchid
Card Model              : Fahrenheit VA/VLB
Card Bus (ISA/EISA/VLB) : VLB
Chipset                 : S3 86C805
Video Memory            : 1 MByte
Memory Type (DRAM/VRAM) : DRAM
Memory Speed            : 60 ns
Clock Chip              : ?
RAMDAC                  : AT&T 16M colors

Operating system        : FreeBSD 1.0.2
XFree86 release, server : 2.0, XF86_S3

Physical resolution     : 1024x768
Virtual resolution      : 1024x768
Dot-clock used          : 75 MHz

XBench lines            :  252441
XBench fills            :   44627
XBench blits            :   40420
XBench arcs             : 3150260
XBench texts            :  117562
XBench complex          :   84967
XBench xstones          :   76182

Submitted by            : Ollivier.Robert@keltia.frmug.fr.net (Ollivier Robert)
Date stamp              : Thu, 9 Dec 1993 22:52:37
================================================================================
CPU (386/486 SX/DX)     : 486DX2-66MHz
Motherboard Memory      : 16 MBytes (256k Cache 20ns)

Card Vendor             : STB
Card Model              : Powergraph VL-24
Card Bus (ISA/EISA/VLB) : VLB
Chipset                 : S3 805
Video Memory            : 1 MByte
Memory Type (DRAM/VRAM) : DRAM
Memory Speed            : 60ns
Clock Chip              :
RAMDAC                  :

Operating system        : Linux 0.99 pl13
XFree86 release, server : 2.0, XF86_S3

Physical resolution     :
Virtual resolution      :
Dot-clock used          :

XBench lines            :  337308
XBench fills            :   50231
XBench blits            :   41814
XBench arcs             : 3678242
XBench texts            :   44687
XBench complex          :  105882
XBench xstones          :   62057

Submitted by            : suettpet@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Peter Suetterlin)
Date stamp              : Wed, 8 Dec 93 12:13:38
================================================================================
CPU(386/486SX/DX)       : 486DX2-66MHz
Motherboard Memory      : 32MB

Card Vendor             : Orchid
Card Model              : Fahrenheit 1280 Plus VLB
Card Bus (ISA/EISA/VLB) : VLB
Chipset                 : S3-805
Video Memory            : 1 MByte
Memory Type (DRAM/VRAM) : DRAM
Memory Speed            : 60ns
Clock Chip              : Chrontel 9303 (?)
RAMDAC                  : AT&T 20C490-80

Operating system        : Linux 0.99 pl14
XFree86 release, server : 2.0, XF86_S3

Physical resolution     : 1024x768
Virtual resolution      : 1024x768
Dot-clock used          : 75 MHz

XBench lines            :  231510
XBench fills            :   32395
XBench blits            :   26884
XBench arcs             : 2712902
XBench texts            :   93843
XBench complex          :   64836
XBench xstones          :   55959

Submitted by            : jvc@la.tis.com (Jeff Cook)
Date stamp              : Mon, 13 Dec 93 12:55:20
================================================================================
CPU (386/486 SX/DX)     : 486DX2-66MHz
Motherboard Memory      : 4 MBytes

Card Vendor             : Cirrus Logic
Card Model              : CLGD 5426 (Generic)
Card Bus (ISA/EISA/VLB) : VLB
Chipset                 : CLGD 5426
Video Memory            : 1 MByte
Memory Type (DRAM/VRAM) : DRAM?
Memory Speed            :
Clock Chip              :
RAMDAC                  :

Operating system        : Linux 0.99 pl13
XFree86 release, server : 2.0, XF86_S3

Physical resolution     : 1024x768
Virtual resolution      : 1024x768
Dot-clock used          : 65 MHz

XBench lines            :  116303
XBench fills            :   12852
XBench blits            :    7176
XBench arcs             : 1572412
XBench texts            :   93500
XBench complex          :   25228
XBench xstones          :   20706

Submitted by            : mdw@cs.cornell.edu (Matt Welsh)
Date stamp              : Wed, 8 Dec 93 01:59:42
================================================================================
CPU (386/486 SX/DX)     : 486DX-33MHz
Motherboard Memory      : 8 MBytes

Card Vendor             : Trident
Card Model              : 8900C
Card Bus (ISA/EISA/VLB) : ISA
Chipset                 : Trident
Video Memory            : 1 MByte
Memory Type (DRAM/VRAM) : DRAM
Memory Speed            : 100ns
Clock Chip              : 
RAMDAC                  : 

Operating system        : Linux 0.99 pl14
XFree86 release, server : 2.0, Trident?

Physical resolution     : 1024x768
Virtual resolution      : 1024x768
Dot-clock used          : 65 MHz

XBench lines            :  54874
XBench fills            :   2557
XBench blits            :   1996
XBench arcs             : 582180
XBench texts            :  39375
XBench complex          :   4183
XBench xstones          :   5133

Submitted by            : mjj@emjay.apana.org.au (Matthew Jackson)
Date stamp              : Sun, 12 Dec 1993 21:38:30
================================================================================
CPU (386/486 SX/DX)     : 486DX2-66MHz
Motherboard Memory      : 16 MBytes

Card Vendor             : Boca Research
Card Model              : SVGA
Card Bus (ISA/EISA/VLB) : ISA
Chipset                 : ET4000
Video Memory            : 512 KBytes
Memory Type (DRAM/VRAM) : DRAM
Memory Speed            :
Clock Chip              :
RAMDAC                  :

Operating system        : Linux 0.99 pl11
XFree86 release, server : 1.3, XF86_S3

Physical resolution     : 800x600
Virtual resolution      : 800x600
Dot-clock used          : 36 MHz

XBench lines            :   84191
XBench fills            :    3926
XBench blits            :    2661
XBench arcs             : 1118073
XBench texts            :   85250
XBench complex          :    6732
XBench xstones          :    7474

Submitted by            : msf%skaro@as.arizona.edu (Michael Fulbright)
Date stamp              : Wed, 8 Dec 1993 01:47:55
================================================================================
CPU (386/486 SX/DX)     : 486DX-33MHz
Motherboard Memory      : 8 meg

Card Vendor             : Diamond (alas!)
Card Model              : Speedsar+
Card Bus (ISA/EISA/VLB) : ISA
Chipset                 : ET4000
Video Memory            : 1 meg
Memory Type (DRAM/VRAM) : VRAM?
Memory Speed            :
Clock Chip              :
RAMDAC                  :

Physical resolution     : 1024x768
Virtual resolution      : 1024x768
Dot-clock used          : 60

Operating system        : Linux 0.99 pl10
XFree86 release, server : 1.2, SVGA

XBench lines            :   86043
XBench fills            :    9259
XBench blits            :    4037
XBench arcs             : 1380498
XBench texts            :   83187
XBench complex          :   12875
XBench xstones          :   12880

Submitted by            : dlj0@Lehigh.EDU (David L. Johnson)
Date stamp              : Sun, 12 Dec 1993 21:37:58
================================================================================
CPU (386/486 SX/DX)     :
CPU Clock Speed         :
Motherboard Memory      :

Card Vendor             :
Card Model              :
Card Bus (ISA/EISA/VLB) :
Chipset                 :
Video Memory            :
Memory Type (DRAM/VRAM) :
Memory Speed            :
Clock Chip              :
RAMDAC                  :

Operating system, vern  :
XFree86 release, server :

Physical resolution     :
Virtual resolution      :
Dot-clock used          :

XBench lines            :
XBench fills            :
XBench blits            :
XBench arcs             :
XBench texts            :
XBench complex          :
XBench xstones          :

Submitted by            :
Date stamp              :
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