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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: Has X Won the Window Wars? (was Re: Is NeWS UseABLE?)
Message-ID: <3461@phri.UUCP>
Date: 7 Sep 88 03:14:03 GMT
Article-I.D.: phri.3461
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Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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In article <6002@ihlpf.ATT.COM> spock@ihlpf.UUCP (Ed-Weiss) writes:
> I have seen a number of articles that give X's shortcomings, but
> I can't think of one that gives NeWS's.  Can you give the NeWS limitations?

	How about, "it's slow".  I should qualify that; NeWS 1.1 is slow on a
4-Mbyte 3/50 because it pages so much.  It works just dandy on a 8-Mbyte
3/160.  Whether this bloatatiousness is inherent in NeWS or just an
implementation problem remains to be seen.  My guess is that it should be
possible to implement NeWS in a much smaller package, but that's just a
guess.  Sun may be good at some things, but writing small programs isn't one
of them.
-- 
Roy Smith, System Administrator
Public Health Research Institute
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