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From: martillo@athena.mit.edu (Yakim Martillo)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: Why I'm suspicious of NeWS
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Date: 13 Feb 88 03:30:14 GMT
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As far as I can tell, bandwidth like memory just gets cheaper and more
available.  Futurebus is not too far off and gigabit bandwidth network
backbones will probably be available in the near future, which is good
because we will be seeing customers that desire network transparent 3d
high resolution real-time color graphics.  Favoring a system because
it might work better over 9600 bps serial links than another seems to
evince a serious confusion about goals.  Now I have the impression
Sun unlike DEC is not doing much research in faster back-planes so that
maybe such goals are reasonable for Sun.  As for context switching,
it would seem that situations could easily exist where NeWS could
actually require more context switching than X because in addition
to context switching between client and server there would be context
switching within the server as well.