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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 386 machines are workstations? (Sun/386i)
Message-ID: <2264@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 29 May 90 14:18:15 GMT
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In article <11876@cbmvax.commodore.com> jesup@cbmvax (Randell Jesup) writes:

| 	God, 60% of a 17 VUPS machine?  I knew Unix window systems were mostly
| horrible hogs, but that's ridiculous.

  On *any* unloaded system the window manager is going to use a lot of
CPU. It doesn't reflect any inherent problem. The window system on the
unix-pc is nicely responsive on an unloaded system, and it runs on a
68010, with barely a single MIP to its name.

  unix windows don't HAVE to take a lot of CPU.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
            "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me