Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watserv1!watcgl!andrewt From: andrewt@watsnew.waterloo.edu (Andrew Thomas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: 2500UX/Purchase Query - X Windows Message-ID: Date: 15 Dec 89 17:59:19 GMT References: <5464@nigel.udel.EDU> <118@cbmcats.UUCP> Sender: daemon@watcgl.waterloo.edu Organization: University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Lines: 37 In-reply-to: ken@cbmcats.UUCP's message of 7 Dec 89 16:56:15 GMT In article <118@cbmcats.UUCP> ken@cbmcats.UUCP (Ken Farinsky) writes: Did everyone see color x-windows running on the ULowell board under unix at the toronto WOC? 1024x768, 256 colors. It was only a technology preview, but it looked good! Perhaps we'll lose the "game machine" image. For the non-believers out there, I was at the Toronto show. They had SYSV3.2 and SYSVR4 running on two machines there. The SYSV3.2 machine was also running color X windows. The window manager was uwm (gag) but the important point is that it was running standard X stuff. It was X version 11 R3 as far as I could tell. There were several X jobs on the machine: 2 xterms, puzzle, mandlebrot generator. The response time from the Unix was better than our microvaxes, or sun3/160, or sun 3/50 - most comparable to our sparcserver. The response from X was slower than R3 on a uvax, except for text which really flew, but faster than on a sun 3/160. The demonstrator was telling us about using GNU Emacs on the machine to do her editing in an X window, taking her files off a Vax750 (780?) file server via NFS because her Amiga had so much better response time. This fills me with hope. The only negative observation I could make about the X implementation is that they had not figured out everything about the cursor. It occasionally left square grey blocks if it was moved while X was too busy. I did not get to see any imaging. I also did not see X running under SYSVR4. Neither system showed any signs of flakiness except the previously observed cursor problem. -- Andrew Thomas andrewt@watsnew.waterloo.edu Systems Design Eng. University of Waterloo "If a million people do a stupid thing, it's still a stupid thing." - Opus