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From: jaap@neptune.UUCP (Jaap Vermeulen)
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Subject: Re: Risc System/6000
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Date: 27 Feb 90 21:58:18 GMT
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bradley@grip.cis.upenn.edu (John Bradley) writes:

>Yes, but has anybody actually PLAYED with these things?  I attended the 
>Philadelphia unveiling and got to try out a 320, a 530, and an X terminal.

I tried the 320 and the X terminal.

>All three of them exhibited X performance that ranged from mediocre to 
>sluglike, depending on the operation.

I agree, plus that the server on the 320 has some ugly bugs (some pull
down menus left holes, lines seem to disappear) and the X terminal lies about
it display density (which makes an application that scales itself unusable).

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>John Bradley  -  University of Pennsylvania  -  GRASP Lab

I don't understand that a machine that powerful (it *really* is fast in
compiling etc.) can be that slow when running X.
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