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From: andrew@hu-isd.UUCP (Andrew Stewart)
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Subject: NeWS speed
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From: Andrew Stewart <mcvax!hu-isd!andrew@seismo.CSS.GOV>
Date: Fri, 15 May 87 14:24:22 -0100
Subject: NeWS speed

>A friend of mine said that AI group at MIT is never going to be running
>NeWS on many workstations. One of the reasons he gave was that X will
>always be at least a factor of 3 faster than NeWS.

Errm - well - it depends. If you assume that you will always work in software,
it's true. But NeWS has less net traffic than X in many cases, and much more
of NeWS can be moved into VLSI - think of the transform functions and the path
operations.

Andrew Stewart