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From: mongo@helios (Mongo Package)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Faster color X for Sun-3s?
Summary: What about the 4 Megabyte machines?
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Date: 25 Apr 89 20:15:55 GMT
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I am anxiously awaiting the release of X11/NeWS from Sun along with everybody
else who has a Sun and wants a faster server.  Unfortunately, I am sitting
in front of a 4 Megabyte Sun.  At the announcement party for the new Sun
Sparcstations 2 weekes ago, Sun confirmed that they do not recommend running
X11/NeWS on a 4 Megabyte Sun unless you use it *only* as a window onto other
machines.  I asked if Sun was planning to release a version of vanilla
X11 without NeWS which was optimized for Sun machines.  The answer was, "No."
It was a qualified `No', but still a `no'.  It would seem that we who have
4 Megabyte machines will have to rely on MIT and Purdue, or go to a third
party vendor.

Steve Allen
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See your Sun sales representative for the real story.  These are my opinions
only and do not reflect the opinions of any portion of the University of Calif.