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From: carey@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Comparing Servers
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Date: 29 Dec 89 01:38:36 GMT
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Nf-From: m.cs.uiuc.edu!carey    Dec 28 09:58:00 1989


I want to test different servers.  That is, I want to compare servers
on various X-terminals, Suns, Dec workstations, etc.

What would be a good way to do this?  I am not looking for an extremely
rigourous text, and I don't really feel like downloading 30 or 40 mb of
the X Test Suite, which I am sure has a lot of protocol tests and so forth.

But we are evaluating X terminals (and by comparison Suns and so forth),
but I have no idea how to do it.

Subjective things like when you pop up a window, "it sure seems fast", 
are not real helpful.

Any ideas?  If there are some good tests in the X Test Suite, maybe 
someone could make available that part of it.

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John Carey
University of Illinois
Dept. of Computer Science
carey@a.cs.uiuc.edu
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