On Fri, 17 Aug 2001 00:39:12 +0200, Eduard Bloch writes: >Robert Waldner wrote on Fri Aug 17, 2001 um 12:09:33AM: > >> You got the bit about "slow hardware", didn´t you? And when I say > >The mail was not intended for you only. Yes, I got that. I mentioned it even. But something along the lines of "ignored Reply-To ´cause of" would´ve been nice. >OTOH, many graphic software is >very slow on a average box, while the power of the graphic card (eg. >Matrox and Nvidia ones) is not used and all calculations has to be done >in the hardware. There are also other tricks that Evas uses, making it a >good choice when looking for good performance. That may be. On faster boxen. >> "slow" I mean *slow*, in my case it´s a Pentium 166 *down*clocked to 50 >> MHz (25 MHZ PCI-clock * 2). There is no such thing as "hardware >> acceleration" in "slow" machines... > >For passive cooling, right? I considered to tune my old machine too - >K6-2-400, downclocked to 166Mhz or so, no harddisks, low-powered cooler >where possible... would be nice for my ears. The reason here is that the box runs 24/7/365 and it´s on my electric-power-bill. Not to mention that I don´t need any other heating in winter in that room (and winter ´round here means down to -15 - -25 degC). And, please!, don´t cc me on list-mail, I read all the lists I post/mail to et al, see http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200108/msg02787.html and follow-up´s/links... cheers, &r<reply-to set, another try>w -- -- It isn't easy being a Friday kind of person in a Monday kind of world. -- - Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> ----
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