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From: bcripe@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Brian E. Cripe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Comparison of HP and Sun
Message-ID: <101950226@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com>
Date: 7 Jun 91 19:42:54 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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> Hanging X-terminals will degrade performance for everyone on a big
> run, while a separate workstation will not.

This week at Xhibition I attended a panel on workstations vs. X-terminals.
Somebody from HP said that their data shows <1% LAN loading per X-terminal
and sombody from Tektronix said their studies show 0.5% LAN loading
per X-terminal.  Everybody agreed that the most common limiting factor
for X-terminal performance is the amount of RAM in the host system.

	Brian Cripe
	Hewlett-Packard