Path: utzoo!censor!geac!jtsv16!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!ANDREW.CMU.EDU!wf08+ From: wf08+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (William Frank) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: DECWindows vs XWindows Message-ID: Date: 4 Aug 89 20:47:33 GMT References: <1391@draken.nada.kth.se> Organization: The Internet Lines: 19 DECWindows -> Memory pig. Seen a uVax II with 9 meg and a good size swap space run i (can't remember how much). Even with only one terminal window (DECTerm), it couldn't start up some of the simple demo programs (runs out of swap space). X ain't the greatest, but it's a lot better than that. DECWindows is really slow too. See below for my problems with X. -Will Frank wf08+@andrew.cmu.edu "Lots of preferences are BAD not good. Most of the bad things that can be said of X have to do with all the homage paid to the holy cause of policy independence and allowing anyone to screw themselves with their preferences. Andrew has won through 'one user interface policy -- it works'. It's time the messages developers were reminded of that." -- Bill Cattey