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From: msf@amelia (Michael S. Fischbein)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.unix.wizards,comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Big Programs Hurt Performance
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Date: Wed, 31-Dec-69 18:59:59 EDT
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In article <417@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> des@jplpro.JPL.NASA.GOV (David Smyth) writes:
>In article <6920@eddie.MIT.EDU> jbs@eddie.MIT.EDU (Jeff Siegal) writes:
>(basing this on the fact that the Xerox Viewpoint/XDE/Star systems
>are FAR more responsive than the Sun, even though the Sun 3 has about
>twice the processing power than the Xerox CPU).

Sorry, but I just CAN'T let this go by.  I use both SUNs and Xerox Stars
at different places, and the Viewpoint is not nearly as responsive as the
SUNs, even though the particular installations I work on provided each
Xerox with a local disk and the SUNs are all diskless 3/50s.

Viewpoint document processing has lots of nice features, though it is missing
some that I think ought to be there; The WYSIWYG display is very good, but
speed in most definitely not a strong point.  In fact, text editing on our
installation is so slow as to be almost unusable.  It is definitely very
frustrating.

I can edit TeX `source,' run it through the formatter, and put the dvi file
up on the onscreen previewer in the same time it take Viewpoint to get the
file displayed and get out of read-only mode.  Paginating a Viewpoint
document takes longer than running TeX, which presumably has more to do.  

		mike

Michael Fischbein                 msf@prandtl.nas.nasa.gov
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