Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!tinman.cis.ohio-state.edu!bob From: bob@tinman.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: X slow on colour suns? Message-ID: Date: 16 Feb 89 17:05:45 GMT References: <1989Feb10.105927.20572@radio.astro.utoronto.ca> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer & Information Science Lines: 9 In-reply-to: brian@radio.astro.utoronto.ca's message of 10 Feb 89 15:59:27 GMT In article <1989Feb10.105927.20572@radio.astro.utoronto.ca> brian@radio.astro.utoronto.ca (Brian Glendenning) writes: If colour suns really are this slow when will things improve? Is Sun selling X yet? Presumably it would be faster :-) Yes, it really is that slow. No, they aren't shipping it yet - they're projecting a July ship date, last I heard (Miami Beach SUG meeting in December). Teitelman shared some benchmarks of their progress tuning their server, and showed that it's already much faster than the sample server, which isn't too hard to believe.