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- From: awills@wam.umd.edu (Andrew F. Wills)
- Subject: Re: MacIntosh X Emulators
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.044045.15132@wam.umd.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 04:40:45 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.144556.24716@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> begley@l14h13.jsc.nasa.gov writes:
- > Can anyone offer a quanitative comparison of the speed at which the
- >two MacIntosh X window emulators, MacX and Exodus, draw graphics? Or
- >point to a magazine that may have made such a comparison?
- > We have a workstation running MATRIXx on an Ethernet and have 2 workstations
- >and about 10 Macs which will connect to it. Having only tried Exodus,
- >we only get satisfactory drawing speeds from our Mac IIfx. Our IIci's and
- >Mac II's are rather pokey. Obviously a $2000 CPU upgrade will solve the
- >problem, but a $200 switch to MacX would be a cheaper alternative.
-
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- Don't use MacX if you want speed. You might try giving EXodus more memory
- in it's File->Get Info listing.
-
- Andy Wills
- awills@wam.umd.edu
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