Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: A tirade about inefficient software & systems Message-ID: Date: 31 Oct 90 18:27:31 GMT References: <9886@milton.u.washington.edu> <=YN6UN5@xds13.ferranti.com> <8460@scolex.sco.COM> <11R6593@xds13.ferranti.com> <1534@svin02.info.win.tue.nl> <1990Oct31.014133.14048@athena.mit.edu> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 8 In article <1990Oct31.014133.14048@athena.mit.edu> jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes: > Funny, I never noticed any problem with X just because the clients > can't "respond in real-time", and I work under it almost exclusively, without > backing-store and save-under on my windows. What sort of hardware are you using? No fair throwing CPU power at the problem to hide it. If you need a 6.0 MIPS machine to get the sort of response I can get from a 0.6 MIPS machine say so. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` peter@ferranti.com