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From: leech@zeta.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: xterm speed
Summary: why is X11 xterm so slow?
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Date: 9 Jan 89 22:28:52 GMT
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    Why is xterm under X11R3 on Suns so slow (esp. scrolling) compared
to X10? Is this a problem with xterm or with X11, and is there any way
to speed things up? I would like to start using X11 but not until
acceptable xterm performance is available.
--
    Jon Leech (leech@cs.unc.edu)    __@/
    ``The experiment must be wrong'' - Richard Feynman (as quoted by
    Eugen Merzbacher), upon hearing that experimental data did not
    agree with theoretical predictions. Feynman was correct :-)