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From: rgs@spot.megatek.uucp (Rusty Sanders)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: New X Stations from Tektronix
Message-ID: <660@megatek.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jul 89 17:09:50 GMT
References: <1626@bacchus.dec.com>
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From article <1626@bacchus.dec.com>, by joel@pandora.pa.dec.com (Joel McCormack):
> From jonnyg@rover.umd.edu:
> 
> ...
> 		Can anyone top this for the money?
> 		Can anyone top this period?
> 
> 
> From me:
> 
> Top it for the money?  I have no idea.
> 
> Top it period?  Try a color DECStation 3100, esp. running UWS 3.1 server.  (Even better, running
> a field test 3.2 server.)  And I suspect that a SparcStation with the new Sun server (in field
> test) will do pretty well, though I haven't seen numbers
I agree with the top it for the money comment. But topping it at all is easy.

The DECstation is a fast box (faster than the new stuff from Sun, as best as I can tell). Also,
from the numbers I have a new product from us (Megatek) is quite fast also (generally faster then
the Decstation). It's an intelligent frame buffer that plugs into a standard Sun. Marketing has
taken to calling it the "X-tra Console", because we support multiples of these on a single sun.
Each framebuffer has its own keyboard, so they can end up kind of like expensive (but VERY fast)
terminals. But the point here is that, as far as I've seen, I've not seen or heard of a faster
color X around. The thing is CG4 compatible, so if you want really fast you can run in the mono
screen (it zaphods).

Not to sound like an add, but if anyone's interested you should come over to the Megatek booth
at Siggraph. I'll be in the back of the booth with this thing, giving demos. Just look for the
guy with the longish hair (in a pony tail, if I can figure out how to do that without my wife's
help).

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