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- From: skk@gsg.pa.dec.com (Stuart Kreitman)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- Subject: (junk) Re: Why do people call it X-windowS?
- Date: 4 Jan 1993 18:04:42 GMT
- Organization: DEC Western Software Laboratory
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- o For those who are obsessed with performance, it is interesting or
- perhaps scary to note that the initial deployment of VS100s
- (68000-based graphics coprocessors connected to the host via
- fiber-optic cable) around Project Athena had 2-4 heads off of
- a VAX 11/750. Yup, I said 750.
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- If the VS100 existed in 1981, then I installed one on a pdp 11/34 netted
- to a DECsystem 2060
- via CHAOSnet.
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- "I don't care what people say, 36 bits are here to stay"
- or...
- "Sailing through the '80s with DECsystems"
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