> A number of graphically-oriented systems are "faster" in X than in console > mode. This includes sparc, sparc64, macppc, probably others. That's > considered normal. :) > > Nick.
I believe the cause is the video hardware. The PC video hardware has always had built-in text-mode with built-in (or loadable) text fonts. As such, the PC video cards can render text very quickly and OpenBSD (and pretty much any other UNIX-like system for i386) takes advantage of that. However, for the macppc, sparc/sparc64, and pretty much anything that uses a framebuffer, text rendering is done through software, not the hardware, so it's far slower. If you happened to have an old Sun or Mac around, you can see how slow by getting into Openboot (Sun) or Openfirmeware (Mac) and see just how slow display performance is. -- Jordan Klein ~ Beware of dragons [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ for you are crunchy Solaris / OpenBSD / Linux Admin ~ and go well with ketchup
