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From: brossard@sasun1.epfl.ch (Alain Brossard EPFL-SIC/SII)
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Subject: Re: OpenWindows 2.0 runs slow on Sun3 50/60(?)
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Date: 9 Nov 90 15:18:20 GMT
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In article <9011090400.AA22028@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, zhengt@MENTOR.CC.PURDUE.EDU (Tong Zheng) writes:
> 
> 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.

  The server that comes with OpenWIndows 2.0 is definitely
slower than the one from MIT.  There is two solutions to
this:
	1- Get/use a GX accelerator board for your machine :-(
	2- Use the server from MIT, with the caveat that you
	   won't be able to use NeWs applications.  BTW I know
	   of only one usefull application that uses NeWs
	   and that is the postcript previewer and I believe
	   that you can have the same functionnality using
	   ghostscript.
-- 

Alain Brossard, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne,
	SIC/SII, EL-Ecublens, CH-1015 Lausanne, Suisse
brossard@sasun1.epfl.ch