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From: tbray@watsol.waterloo.edu (Tim Bray)
Subject: Slow X on IBM RS6000?
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Date: Sat, 19 Jan 91 18:04:01 GMT
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zs01+@andrew.cmu.edu (Zalman Stern) writes:
 
 When I was doing development on a 530 (25 Mhz RIOS) I didn't notice these
 problems. (My MIPS Magnum feels a little better, but at least part of that
 is the losing X11 performance on the RIOS.)

Very very interesting.  Is it well-established that X on the RS6K is slow?
How come?

Tim Bray, Open Text Systems, Waterloo, Ontario