| Re: IDL performance numbers.... [message #18553] |
Fri, 14 January 2000 00:00 |
wmc
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Registered: February 1995
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David Fanning <davidf@dfanning.com> wrote:
> Richard Tyc (richt@sbrc.umanitoba.ca) writes:
>> Is it typical for high performance IDL machines to run only 8 bit color ?
> Yes, but for reasons more closely associated with sloth
> than with performance. :-)
Insofar as I have a high-perf machine I could try to answer: many of us run over
a network, and my X-term is older than my CPUs and only runs 8-bit. And, I don't
miss the extra colours (I think).
-W.
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William M Connolley | wmc@bas.ac.uk | http://www.nbs.ac.uk/public/icd/wmc/
Climate Modeller, British Antarctic Survey | Disclaimer: I speak for myself
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