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From: scott@spectra.COM (Tim Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Can anyone tell me about <<xstones>>?
Keywords: xstones benchmark
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Date: 29 Jun 89 00:12:40 GMT
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Greetings oh puissant and omniscient ones in netland!

Can anybody tell me anything about something called "xstones?" According
to a certain vendor of X terminals (name suppressed to protect the inno-
cent, as much as any vendor is innocent. But the company name might begin
with J), his (sorry: "their" [I've been browing in soc.{wo}men again])
device performs at 8000 or so "xstones" (whatever those are) compared to, 
say, an SGI 4D doing 1800-2000. Thus:

1) (If it exists) is this something from the X group?

2) Did this vendor just write his own to make his hardware look good?

3) If it exists and anyone knows about it, is source and/or documentation
available?

4) Any and all information is welcome. 

I hope this is of moderate interest to some people on the net, so    
apologies in advance if this question has already been answered. 
In which case I second the poster who asked whether there are archives 
of the traffik in the group. (I've only been following it for a 
week or two.)

People seem to have been able to get to me with:
	...!uunet!nosc!spectra!scott
someone said 
	scott@spectra.com 
would also work, but I certainly can't SEND anything in that format.