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From: jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J Eric Townsend)
Subject: Window switching (was Re: Amiga basher
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Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1991 02:25:41 GMT

In article <1991Jun16.040300.17455@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>I have. Gorgeous graphics. But they're about as responsive as a deaf cat. When
>I want to switch to another window I want it *now*, not after every app on
>the screen has been scheduled, cleaned up its damage list, done its
>housekeeping, and so on.

No joke.  My 25Mhz 030 A3000 switches windows faster than my
SparcStation-2 (20+ MIPS, 3+ MFLOPS) under X11R4.  However, SunView, which
has hard-core kernal support, is as fast one window switching.  This wasn't
the case on my SparcStation-1, however.

Oh well.  It still blows the doors off Windows...


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