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- From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
- Subject: Re: Dumping OW and running X11R5(Was: Speed of Openwin 3)
- Message-ID: <72495@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 01:29:17 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <4f9_8ce00VR_E7PiQz@andrew.cmu.edu>
- <1992Dec8.162033.19938@ncsu.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec8.162033.19938@ncsu.edu>
- acb@Ziggy.csl.ncsu.edu (Andrew C. Burnette) writes:
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- | [...]
- | But seriously, I have seen what other vendors bundle. Have you taken a
- | spin in decwindows lately? How about that thing HP calls X11? I think OW3
- | is about on par, if not slightly better. Of course, you don't have to use
- | it if you don't like it.
-
- Hah!
-
- I have a DEC Alpha/APX here running DECwindows, and the _subjective_ opinion
- of all who've tried it is that it's SLOWER than my SUN-3/60 running X11R5 as
- regards window re-arranging, etc.; this has also caused several to bemuse that
- DEC should have named the system "Omega". :-)
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- Thad Floryan [ thad@btr.com, thad@cup.portal.com ]
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