[rescue] SPARCstation 20

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Mon Feb 4 14:22:18 CST 2002


On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 02:52:08PM -0500, nate wrote:
> Hmm, does anyone have a copy of Photoshop for Solaris? Then I could test
> it to see if it really is accelerated with a Rasterflex :) I do have to
> say that the gimp runs surprisingly well. Some parts of the interface
> are pokier (I assume poky integer unit?), but the actual operations
> (like filters, color adjustment) I think are faster on my SS20 than my
> ibm stinkpad 600e (366mhz pII, neomagic 128)... The SS20 has 80mb ram,
> one SM61 and the Rasterflex-HR... Now if only I could compile gnome in
> less than a week on this thing....


A lot of people don't spend their time doing filters.  Rather, we spend it
with the brushes and other tools.  Most of the filters scream amature (under
both Gimp and Photoshop).

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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