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From: carter@ferrari.mst6.lanl.gov (Dave Carter)
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Subject: Re: decwindows applications on X11R4
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Date: 18 Dec 90 21:47:06 GMT
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In article <1990Dec18.100755@geohub.enet.dec.com> dwight@geohub.gcn.uoknor.edu writes:
)n article <1990Dec17.173555@wsl.dec.com>, klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee) writes:
)|)In article <2120@mustang.mst6.lanl.gov>, carter@ferrari.mst6.lanl.gov (Dave
)Carter) writes:
)|)
)|)|) btw, when is dec going to come out with a R4 server?
)|)
)|)What does "R4 server" mean to you?  The current DEC servers support
)|)everything in X11R4, except for the shape extension.  They are also
)|)generally faster than the MiT servers.  Is there something in

i disagree, but i don't have the numbers.  (though i think i saw a
posting about this along time ago.)  i've seen both run on a
DECstation 3100 and 5000 and the vanilla X11R4 server from MIT is
*much* faster than DECWindows.

)|)particular your clients require, other than shape?  If you have found
)|)bugs that you want fixed, please report them.
)|)
)|)-- 
)|)Ken Lee
)|)DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
)|)Internet: klee@wsl.dec.com
)|)uucp: uunet!decwrl!klee
)|)
)
)Ok...when is DECWindows (ala X Windows)  going to support R4 (I mean the
)libraries and include
)files now, not the servers...).
)
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)                                Dwight D. Moore
)                         Geosciences Computing Network
)                            University of Oklahoma
)
)                  dwight@geohub.gcn.uoknor.edu (129.15.40.10)
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