Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!csc.anu.oz.au!csc3.anu.oz.au!anucsd!antares!steve From: steve@antares.anu.oz.au (Steven Ball) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: OpenWindows 2.0 runs slow on Sun3 50/60(?) Message-ID: Date: 12 Nov 90 01:31:53 GMT References: <9011090400.AA22028@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1990Nov9.161820@sasun1.epfl.ch> Sender: news@anucsd.anu.oz.au (USENET News software) Organization: ANU Department of Computer Science Lines: 38 brossard@sasun1.epfl.ch (Alain Brossard EPFL-SIC/SII) writes: >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 You also won't be able to run SunView applications alongside your Open/X-Windows clients. This is useful to be able to do until such time as all your applications are released supporting X windows. Here at DCS, ANU, we have Interleaf and in Engineering they're using AutoCAD. These both run under SunView (only). The Interleaf Salesman says (in SalesSpeak :-) that the next version will run under X. I hope he's right! -- Steven Ball, Department of Computer Science, ANU E-mail: steve@anucsd.anu.edu.au Ph. (06) 2495147 Snail-mail: GPO Box 4, CANBERRA CITY ACT 2600, AUSTRALIA He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!