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From: dyer@harvard.UUCP (Steve Dyer)
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Subject: CPU overhead of X on a VAXstation II?
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Date: Sun, 27-Apr-86 17:37:07 EDT
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Does anyone have any hard figures on the CPU overhead of running "X"
on a VAXstation II which is also planned to be used as a general-purpose
time-sharing machine?  Anecdotally, I've been playing with one, and with
one or two additional jobs running on other terminals, I can see the
time-slicing during window-scrolling.  It's a new experience getting
swapped out in the middle of drawing a character or redrawing half a line! 
-- 
/Steve Dyer
dyer@harvard.harvard.edu
harvard!dyer