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From: jim@athsys.uucp (Jim Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Re: X slow on colour suns?
Message-ID: <249@tityus.UUCP>
Date: 21 Feb 89 02:10:17 GMT
References: <245@tityus.UUCP>
Organization: Athena Systems, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
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From article <245@tityus.UUCP>, by jim@athsys.uucp (Jim Becker):
> From article <BOB.89Feb16120545@tinman.cis.ohio-state.edu>, 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 :-)
>> 
> 	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


	I was corrected by a representative of Sun. These are _stated_
performance goals for FCS, but may not represent the current numbers.
I believe that this statement was made by a Daisy employee, not
someone speaking for Sun Microsystems (but I may be wrong here again).
This was at the Bay Area X meeting, at the Daisy cafeteria...

	How do I keep managing to put my foot in my mouth so bad? 

	I will be moving from Athena to Sun, to help work on their
X11/News effort. Then I can just shut up and help make the numbers
fact... (oh happy day, oh happy day...)


-Jim Becker		...!sun!athsys!jim