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From: campbelr@hpcuha.cup.hp.com (Bob Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: VUE and OpenLook Apps
Message-ID: <31480002@hpcuha.cup.hp.com>
Date: 29 Oct 90 16:06:55 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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> It takes approximately 1 minute from logging in to start VUE. As this
> workstation is going to support 4 diskless workstations running case
> tools and doing some database serving as well, I can see us not using VUE
> at all for performance reasons. We will probably use the MOTIF window
> manager. Some experimentation is required.

I think that you might find vuewm and mwm to be oddly similar in size . . .

I should explain my posting by saying that when using some features of
VUE (i.e. dragging a file icon to the waste basket for a file deletion)
you are actually using multiple tools.  These tools tend to eat memory,
but are ideal for some people (like a non-technical secretary who doesn't
want to learn Unix).  Different people will have different opinions on
what tools are useful and what performance is acceptable.  

Softbench and VUE are not mindless memory pigs, but with them you will
ask your systems to do more than they have been doing.   When you have
6 virtual screens, you will start to fill them up.  And you will run more 
file browsers, editors and debuggers without thinking about it.

But then, you can never have enough cpu/memory/disk/lan . . .
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