Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!hc!lll-winken!uunet!hsi!stpstn!aad From: aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: DEC windows/X windows compatibility Message-ID: <3104@stpstn.UUCP> Date: 2 Apr 89 21:15:40 GMT References: <2628@decuac.DEC.COM> <10871@paris.ics.uci.edu> Reply-To: aad@stepstone.com Organization: The Stepstone Corporation, Sandy Hook, CT Lines: 23 In article <10871@paris.ics.uci.edu> B. Ferguson writes: >Has anyone had any experience with DEC windows, specifically how >compatible with X11r3 is it. Here's mine. I've got it running on a mono vs2000 with "only" 6 meg. MIT 11.3 runs just fine on this machine, but DECwindows is a **PIG**. A terminal window seems to take up something like >>>>900k<<<<<. The machine pages like crazy, and performance is *severely* bad. As far as compatibility, I tried to run some of the core MIT 11.3 programs from remote machines on it. Some of them wouldn't run at all, others ran strangely. xeyes, for example, ran, but with the upper right quarter of everything (the pupil, the circle, etc...) missing! I'm underwhelmed. -- @disclaimer(Any concepts or opinions above are entirely mine, not those of my employer, my GIGI, my VT05, or my 11/34) beak is@>beak is not Anthony A. Datri @SysAdmin(Stepstone Corporation) aad@stepstone.com stpstn!aad