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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
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Subject: Re: X11R4 server on DS3100; pro/con
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Date: 4 Jan 90 19:31:38 GMT
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    If I were going to bring the X11R4 environment over to my color DS3100
    running UWS 2.1, would there be any need to also bring over the R4 server?

There's no requirement, although you won't get the sexier aspects of some
of the R4 clients without an R4 server (supporting the SHAPE extension).

    If I didn't and kept the DEC server, would some R4 apps break?

Nothing should break.

    If I did, how much of a lose would it be, assuming (reasonably or
    unreasonably) that the DEC UWS server is somehow better optimized?

You will find that the R4 server is faster for some things, slower for
some other things, compared with the Digital server on the color PMAX.