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From: rees@pisa.ifs.umich.edu (Jim Rees)
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Subject: Re: Performance of Objectworks 2.5
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Date: 12 Oct 90 19:18:56 GMT
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In article <1990Oct12.183052.24915@ccs.carleton.ca>, holtz@zonker.cascade.carleton.ca (Neal Holtz) writes:
  I have found Objectworks to be so slow as to be all but unusable,
  particularly in menu interactions and scrolling...
  I have heard that the stock Apollo X11 server is not the best (in performance), but 
  it is acceptable for almost all other applications.

I'll say it again, because this is important.  The sr10.2 x11r3 share-mode
server is *unusably slow*.  If you want to run X on your Apollo, you *must*
install something called "psk5."  This is a big patch tape that includes
lots of goodies, including a new DM.  It will boost your X performance by a
factor of 3 to 10.  Run to your nearest HP office and camp out until they
give this to you.