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From: zhengt@MENTOR.CC.PURDUE.EDU (Tong Zheng)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: OpenWindows 2.0 runs slow on Sun3 50/60(?)
Message-ID: <9011090400.AA22028@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 9 Nov 90 04:00:39 GMT
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I have been running OpenWindows2.0 on our Sun3 50/60s
for couple of weeks, and am impressed by the 
method of the interface and its DeskSet applications.
But I found that it ran quite slow on the Sun3 50/60s
I am using.  There are around 8Mbytes memory on our
Sun3 50/60, and I belive the OpenWindows runs via NSF.
It runs so slow on Sun3/50 that I can hardly work on 
multiwindows on my display.  It's much better on the 
Sun3/60, but still doesn't work fast enough against
the speed of my old&good MIT's simple Wm+Xapplications
interface.

So, my question here is if the OpenWindows is designed
for those high speed boxes, such as SPARCs, or what
number of amonut of memory is good enough to run 
OpenWindows in normal(normal here means that most window
operations should be done in couple of seconds which
I haven't been able to see it on my Sun3 50/60s running
OpenWindows).

Does anyone out there also have this problem?
If anyone has the similar story or any kind of explaination,
ideas or suggestion, I would like to hear about it.
You can either post on the net or send me via e-mail.

Any information is appreciated.


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