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From: fgreco@govt.shearson.COM (Frank Greco)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Why do so many "great" people dislike X?
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Date: 10 Sep 90 18:17:50 GMT
Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
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>As a user I looked at NeWS 1.1 (I think that was the revision),
>running on a sun3/50.  Within a week I was no longer running it.  The
              ^^^^^^^
>terminal emulators were the big reason why I dropped NeWS.  I couldn't
>get adequate performance out of the terminal emulators, and they
>seemed buggy as all get out.  Since I primarily do text type things
>(such as compiler support), it didn't matter one whit whether it was
>easier to do complex graphics with the system -- if it doesn't do the
>basic tasks, it is useless as a window system.
>--
>Michael Meissner	email: meissner@osf.org		phone: 617-621-8861
>Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142


	Michael,

	I wouldn't expect much gas out of 3/50.  Gees, its only a 2 MIP machine,
	going downhill with the wind at its back.
	
	The first few (alpha, beta and FCS) versions of NeWS did not include a very 
	good terminal emulator.  It was a long time problem getting Sun to produce a 
	usable terminal emulator (psterm, the Postscript terminal emulator written by 
	Steve Isaacs, was never intended to be production quality.  I'm not making 
	excuses for Sun, but either a decent terminal emulator should have been written,
	or Sun should have released psterm under a "UnderConstruction" directory).
	There are several decent ones in the public domain that you could
	scarf up on the net (or from the latest Sun User Group tape).
	OW 2.0 does include a new and improved psterm, but more importantly, you could
	use good 'ole xterm, since OW 2.0 uses a merged X and NeWS server.

	This is what I do.


	Frank G.	fgreco@shearson.com
	...my opinions are mine, of course...