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From: jordan@morgan.COM (Jordan Hayes)
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Subject: Re: Not impressed with MacX (performance)
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Date: 15 Dec 90 21:09:15 GMT
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Mike Word <jmw9681@usav01.glaxo.com> writes:

	I recently had the fortune to witness a demonstration of Mac-X
	and I was very surprised at the slooooooow speed of the server
	running on a MacIIfx!

MacX is running concurrently with the Mac environment.  Try running the
X11R4 MIT server (or Apple's raw server) and you'll see much better
performance.  On a Mac IIfx running the MIT server, the machine feels a
whole lot faster than a Sun 3/60.

"ico -faces -colors ..." runs respectably even.

/jordan