1. History

2. Features

3. References

4. External links

Accelerated-X is a proprietary port of the X Window System to Intel x86 machines.

History

The Accelerated-X server is built on top of the X386 X server that was created by Thomas Roell for X11 Release 5. He founded a company in Colorado named Xi Graphics which still provides the Accelerated-X server.

The XFree86 project was created as a free alternative to what became the Accelerated-X server.{{Citation needed|date=November 2008}}

Features

Accelerated-X server provides an "overlay mode" on several graphics cards which allows running ancient, 256 color mode-only Unix alongside more modern applications on truecolor 24-bit displays.

It used to provide much better driver support (hardware acceleration, 3D and compatibility, especially on integrated graphics) than XFree86, at a time when the major graphics chipset vendors were not supporting Linux officially.

References

External links

• Xi Graphics and Accelerated-X

• Colin Ross (footballer)
• Colin Rosslyn Dunnage
• Colin Rourke
• Colin R. Turner
• Colin Rutherford
• Colin Ryan (disambiguation)
• Colin Ryan (Limerick hurler)
• Colin Saddington
• Colin Sampson (police officer)
• Colin's angelfish
• Colin Schomberg
• Colin Schooler
• Colin Scott-Moncrieff
• Colin S. Diver
• Colin Self (composer)
• Colin Sephton
• Colin Sexton
• Colin Seymour
• Colin Seymour-Ure
• Colin Shaw (footballer)
• Colin Shaw (rugby union, born 1983)
• Colin Shillinglaw
• Colin Sieders
• Colin Simpson (journalist)
• Colin Sinclair (minister)