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From: lanning@parc.xerox.com (Stan Lanning)
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Subject: Re: Xnews vs Xsun on SPARCstation 2 GX
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Date: 5 Dec 90 19:27:48 GMT
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T> In other words, most people do a lot of window creation, moving,
T> resizing, hiding, exposing and destroying (After all what is a window
T> system for?)

Gee, sitting here in Emacs, editing text, reading mail and news, I
thought that displaying text was still more frequent then creating
windows.

T> Brief analysis shows that xnews is superior on the Calvin GX in terms
T> of line drawings... character operations... scrolling

I'll take xnews, thank you.
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-- smL