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From: levene@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Robert A. Levene)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Sun SLC vs. X Terminal
Summary: Which do you prefer?  Send me e-mail.
Keywords: SLC, X Terminal, comparison
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.172415.15890@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>
Date: 20 Mar 91 17:24:15 GMT
References: <1991Mar20.163036.28305@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
Reply-To: levene@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu (Robert A. Levene)
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I'm currently considering the relative merits of purchasing a color
X-terminal xor a comparably-priced Sun SPARCstation SLC to accompany
a color SPARCstation.

If you've had to make this choice, have strong opinions either way, or
have relative performance benchmarks, please send me e-mail, and if
there's sufficient interest, I'll post a summary.

Comments from Sun, NCD, Tek etc. are welcome, provided that you make
your bias explicit.

My application is both Graphics- and CPU-intensive, so the big
question is "Does the supposed performance increase of the SLC
outweigh its lack of color/greyscale graphics?  Is there a major
loss when attempting to display color images on it?"

Thanks in advance,
Rob Levene

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