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From: klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Tradeoffs between DEC & MIT servers
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Date: 8 Sep 90 01:05:24 GMT
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In article <6524@tekgen.BV.TEK.COM>, mike@raven.uss.tek.com (Mike Ewan) writes:
|> I've used both, although I haven't used the DEC windows server extensively,
|> and the MIT server/clients are far faster.  Also you get more choices for
|> window managers and other goodies.

If you do an objective test, you should find that the current DEC and
MIT servers are roughly equivalent in performance.  Any client,
including window managers, using the standard X11 protocol should work
properly with either server (modulo bugs and font availability).

Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
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