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From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: X Windows on a <take your pick>
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Date: 18 Feb 90 20:49:30 GMT
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On Sun, 18 Feb 90 18:49:00 GMT you said:
>> 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.
>
>  What do you mean abou the IIci?  It's been out for a few months now.

He didn't write 'CI' he wrote 'XI' which is (allegedly) scheduled for
release next month (my Vaporware column -- coming next weekend -- has
a bit on it).  Last I heard the 'XI' (or was it 'CXI' -- Apple's getting
so many flavors of Mac II's that it's VERY confusing) was going to be
a 25 MHz (a 'CI' with more slots).  Lessee, isn't it the Mac tower
(the Mac IIt <-- that's 'T') that's going to be 33 MHz (Aug '90??)?

Why not just buy one of the third party 50 MHz 68030 accelerators and
have done with it :-)  On the other hand, after seeing the bench mark
specs on the 25 MHz 68040 <-- that's 40 (13 Megaflops!!) maybe I'll
wait until Fall (August???) for the last of Apple's 680xx Macs...

>running X.  It's slow as sin on an IBM RT, and they'll blow away a

Out of date (the RT's was obsolete when introduced four years ago :-)
IBM announced the 'new RT' (System 6000) last week.  It's an order of
magnitude faster than the old RT (the low end 6000 is 20 MIPS) so its
GUI isn't as "gooey" as before ;-)

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