Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!apple!vsi1!daver!athsys!jim From: jim@athsys.uucp (Jim Becker) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: X slow on colour suns? Message-ID: <245@tityus.UUCP> Date: 17 Feb 89 23:03:11 GMT References: Organization: Athena Systems, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 20 From article , by bob@tinman.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield): > 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. At the local X User Group someone in the audience said that they were using an alpha version of the Sun server. They said that the monochrome version of the server is three times faster than the MIT sample server and the color version is five times faster than the MIT server. Sun is committed to having the very best server out there. -Jim Becker ...!sun!athsys!jim