Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!sundance!jac From: jac@gandalf.llnl.gov (James A. Crotinger) Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga 3000UX, X, OpenLook, Motif, Color, A2410, Etc. (somewhat long) Message-ID: Date: 21 Mar 91 18:12:52 GMT References: <1991Mar20.211652.3247@kessner.denver.co.us> <1991Mar21.085254.5325@kessner.denver.co.us> Sender: usenet@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV Lines: 37 Nntp-Posting-Host: sundance.llnl.gov david@kessner.denver.co.us (David Kessner) writes: You just don't have a fast enough machine 8-). From an xterm on my Sparc 1: gandalf:jac(make-3.59)> ls -l ChangeLog -rw-r--r-- 1 jac 164432 Nov 28 19:53 ChangeLog gandalf:jac(make-3.59)> time cat ChangeLog [164432 characters deleted 8-)] 0.030u 0.160s 0:15.88 1.1% 0+82k 0+0io 0pf+0w ^^^^^^^ wall clock time While this is not quite as quick as your 386's console, I think it is quite acceptable. And if I cat the same file from a disk on a remote machine (where xterm is running on the remote machine, a 490), I get 0.010u 0.120s 0:09.32 1.3% 0+55k 0+2io 0pf+0w So X on a Sparc can display characters quite quickly. [And this is Sun's xnews running on a machine with 8 bit graphics but without Sun's GX board. The figures would almost certainly be faster running MIT's X server] [From psterm, which does the rendering in NeWS (PostScript), the time was 16.22 seconds to cat the local file with a locally running psterm, and 14.87 seconds to cat the remote file with a remotely running psterm] [BTW, I don't think I've ever seen anything display characters as quickly as the old AMIX windowing system. Man, it blasted them characters up there!] Jim -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- James A. Crotinger Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab // The above views jac@moonshine.llnl.gov P.O. Box 808; L-630 \\ // are mine and are not (415) 422-0259 Livermore CA 94550 \\/ necessarily those of LLNL