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From: gtc@cup.portal.com (greg t chalfin)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Need Advice on Perceived Speed of X-Terminals
Message-ID: <30330@cup.portal.com>
Date: 30 May 90 17:28:11 GMT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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By "perceived speed" I mean how it looks to the user.  In particular,
what sort of X-Terminal does it take to look impressively fast;
say under one-half second to pop up a complicated menu.

The client I'm thinking of uses Motif; a "complicated menu" might
consist of around 20 label widgets, 20 text widgets (used as
one-line text entry areas), and a few button widgets.

I'm interested in any experience anyone has had in running such
applications on specific X-Terminals.  I'm particularly interested
in what sort of X-Terminal architecture it takes to provide a
real fast look-and-feel.  What CPU does the X-Terminal use (and what
clock rate), what graphics chip (if any), and how much RAM?  Also,
how critical are server details?  (Are there cases where two
different X-Terminals use the same hardware but perform a lot
differently due to different server software?)

Thanks in advance for any info.

---Greg