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From: gt0t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Gregory Ross Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: MicroEMACS / UNIX editors
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Date: 18 Feb 90 18:49:00 GMT
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> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.apple: 18-Feb-90 Re: MicroEMACS / UNIX
> editors Chan Wilson@NISC.SRI.COM (1109)

> Hmph. After I spent an afternoon playing with X windows on a Mac IIx, I 
> wouldn't _want_ to see X windows on a GS.  A IIx is running at 16mhz,
> and it
> still was pretty slow.  Maybe on the IIxi (whoops, not out yet :^)
> running at
> 33 (or is it 40) mhz, or maybe even a 20mhz 65816 GS, but not at 2.8mhz.
>  
> 'Course, if I was porting the X server over, I'd skip the C and code
> directly
> in 65816... probably alot faster, given the status of 65816 C compilers.

  What do you mean abou the IIci?  It's been out for a few months now. 
It runs at 25 mhz, not 33 or 40.  You can get the press release for it
off of apple.com's ftp site...  I admit, the GS would really stink
running X.  It's slow as sin on an IBM RT, and they'll blow away a
GS....  Oh well...

> --Chan
> 			   ................
>   Chan Wilson -- cwilson@nisc.sri.com <or> radius!cwilson@apple.com
> Janitor/Architect of comp.binaries.apple2 archive on wuarchive.wustl.edu
> 	      I don't speak for SRI, someone else does.
> 			   ................

		-Greg T.