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From: arshad@cs.ed.ac.uk (Arshad Mahmood)
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Subject: Re: Networks and protocols for process control
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Date: 11 Jun 91 13:43:55 GMT
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In article <1991Jun10.021500.13402@sequent.com> szabo@sequent.com writes:
>In article <497@octelb.octel.UUCP> richard@octel.UUCP (Richard Karasik) writes:
>> One comment -X is and has always been a network pig ... do not rule
>> out Motif (also not so nice but better than X)
>
>Hate to break the news, but Motif runs over X.  If X is a network pig,
>Motif must be a cow....

Yes I agree. However, most of these tools built on top of X tend to do
a lot of buffering. Hence, taking a little of the load off. Therefore,
they can sometimes be substantially faster than Xlib.

>Nick Szabo				szabo@sequent.com

Best Wishes,
A. Mahmood