Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pasteur!helios.ee.lbl.gov!epb2.lbl.gov!envbvs From: envbvs@epb2.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: DEC windows/X windows compatibility Message-ID: <2335@helios.ee.lbl.gov> Date: 3 Apr 89 23:23:02 GMT References: <3104@stpstn.UUCP> <2628@decuac.DEC.COM> <10871@paris.ics.uci.edu> Sender: usenet@helios.ee.lbl.gov Lines: 32 In article <3104@stpstn.UUCP>, aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri) writes: > 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. > I had the same experience. We have two color vs2000's with "only" 6 meg and performance was abysmal! Also, some bitmaps, e.g. twm's resize and keyboard bitmaps in the title bars were bit-shifted or byte-swapped when we ran twm under DEC's server. We finally gave up on all the DEC stuff and stuck to MIT's release. DEC has finally found a way to force people to buy more memory than they should need! _____________________________________ Brian V. Smith (bvsmith@lbl.gov) Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory We don't need no stinking signatures!