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Stephen J Turnbull <turnbull@turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> writes:

>>>>>> "sb" == SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:

sb> (Were the screen shots of that program limited to 8 bit color?
sb> Somehow I was expecting something more ...)

> Weren't no screen shots.  Sorry about that.  My mail machine is not
> the same machine I do XEmacs on yet, I was too lazy to deal with it.

Eh?  You provided a URL to a program with a weird name (XCthugha) and
that page had screen shots on it.  The screen shots I browsed (despite
the nasty language[1] on the page) didn't seem to use a whole lot of
color.
 ...
>>> If it doesn't, upgrade it.  You can get an inexpensive PCI
>>> S3Trio64+ for under $60 I bet.  That's what I use, and it's
>>> working just fine.

sb> Are we actually in a position to be able to recommend this?
sb> It sure would be nice.

> Not on this side of the puddle (Japan); there are lots and lots of
> 486s and 8bits-at-usable-resolution video cards still in use around
> me.  And my department at my university has a widely envied equipment
> budget.

That has been my impression.

> OTOH, for this particular problem, on a 133MHz Gateway P5 running
> XCthugha puts the load average up to 1.5; I don't think people who
> can't afford decent video cards will be running this program much.
> And NEC and Toshiba and IBM run about 25 commercial spots each pushing
> "multimedia network computing" between 6 and 12pm every night ... the
> basic acceptable level of hardware will improve fast, here in Japan.

And on the gripping[2] hand, that would make us no better than Microsoft.

Footnotes: 
[1]  ``You stupid loser, why aren't you browsing with graphics
enabled?'', or something to the effect.

[2]  See _The Mote in God's Eye_, or its sequel.

