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- From: tomg@hpcvusc (Thomas J. Gilg)
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- Subject: Re: X11R5 server SLOW, on 705 with GRX + xterm bug
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.233710.6601@hpcvusn.cv.hp.com>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 23:37:10 GMT
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- > R5 is faster on all the other machines I've used it on, why shouldn't
- > HPs benefit from that speedup too.
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- The supported R3/R4/R5 servers from HP have many man-years of tuning
- and custom code involved. They also don't roll quickly or intuitively
- from one release to another, and contain proprietary code, some of which
- is up for patents. The MIT contrib is simple mfb/cfb code.
-
- Thomas Gilg
- tomg@cv.hp.com
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