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From: martillo@athena.mit.edu (Yakim Martillo)
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Subject: Re: Why I'm suspicious of NeWS (X vs. ISDN)
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Date: 15 Feb 88 03:32:56 GMT
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I hardly consider it a flaw with X that it might not work well over
ISDN.  ISDN is a broken and obsolete technology, and I speak as
someone who has frequently taken part in the T1/D1 standards meetings.
In any case I remember one of Jim Gettys early demos was running a
client doing fast graphics at Berkeley with a server at MIT and the
performance wasn't obviously worse than performance across a LAN
at MIT.  Now the link was probably a 56kbps leased line so I don't
think that X will do so bad over 64kbps switched lines.