Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!romp!auschs!d75!exeter.austin.ibm.com!woan From: woan@exeter.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S Woan) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Why are IBM xstations up to 10 times slower than other vendors? Message-ID: <3943@d75.UUCP> Date: 23 May 91 05:26:29 GMT References: Sender: news@d75.UUCP Reply-To: woan@cactus.org Organization: Austin School of Hardknocks Lines: 17 In article todd@Quotron.COM (Todd Booth) writes: >I've ran a test on a variety of programs and xfig is about 10 times >slower on an ibm xstation server (fully loaded memory) than a sun >xserver or an ncr xterminal. I did run the window manager (mwm) on >a remote host in all cases. What level of AIX 3.? are you running, which model of Xstation with how much memory and what display? The 3005 AIX 3.1 update includes the new X11R4 based Xserver for the Xstations which should be quite a bit faster. -- +-----All Views Expressed Are My Own And Are Not Necessarily Shared By------+ +------------------------------My Employer----------------------------------+ + Ronald S. Woan woan@cactus.org or woan@austin.vnet.ibm.com + + other email addresses Prodigy: XTCR74A Compuserve: 73530,2537 +