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From: brtmac@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu (Brett McCoy)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: "fixed" vtwm
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Date: 25 Aug 90 18:36:24 GMT
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In article <THOTH.90Aug25140850@reef.cis.ufl.edu>,
thoth@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Gilligan) writes:
|>   I use a color Sun 3/80.  When I can use a Sun SS1+ I don't have to
|> worry about speed any more because the 1+ is much to fast to be slowed
|> down by some piddly expose events and text drawing.  Ahh, what I
|> wouldn't do for a color Sparc on my desk.

You are going to have the same problem on a color Sparc unless you get a
GX board and run OpenLook
on it.  The color sparcs seem almost as slow as a monochrom 3/60.  It
will be faster than a color
3/80, but you would probably still want your highways between deskspaces.

Too bad the universe doesn't run in a segmented environment with
protected memory. -- Wiz from "Wizards Bane" by Rick Cook
Brett McCoy                 | Kansas State University
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