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Date:	Tue, 31 Aug 2004 21:36:02 PDT7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Mozilla 1.7 extremely slow

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J. R. Fox wrote:
>
> Peter Skye wrote:
> > It's an Elsa Winner 2000/Office 8 MB with the last Elsa driver.
> > Supposedly high-end at the time. Uses a 3DLabs Permedia 2 chip.
>
> Peter,
>
> 8mb. is pretty antideluvian and threadbare. 32mb. of onboard
> video memory has been a standard baseline for many years

Standard baseline for what? I'm 1600x1200. That's 2 M of pixels. Last
time I checked, 4 bytes per pixel gave amazing color quality.

Are you one of those nefarious Windows users?

> > I use the same video card for every browser on the machine.
>
> That won't make it adequate. I think it may be more a function of
> the complexity and contents of so many web pages these days,

*Now* I understand. The complex web pages use more display pixels than
the simple web pages do.

(Foxey: the extra memory in those fancy new video cards is used for, to
use a layman's word, cache. It allows gamers to keep their heroes and
heroines intact as layers and simply move them around the screen rather
than redraw them which results in very fast animation. The drivers and
onboard processor make these things run as fast gamer displays. For
more info start with google bitblt for historical background and go from
there.)

- Peter

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