Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ncar!husc6!rice!titan!phil From: phil@titan.rice.edu (William LeFebvre) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Free Sun bash Message-ID: <1896@kalliope.rice.edu> Date: 19 Sep 88 18:09:11 GMT References: <358@island.uu.net> <626@mace.cc.purdue.edu> <68544@sun.uucp> <657@mace.cc.purdue.edu> <24947@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Sender: usenet@rice.edu Reply-To: phil@Rice.edu (William LeFebvre) Organization: Rice University, Houston Lines: 47 In article <24947@bu-cs.BU.EDU> madd@bu-it.bu.edu (Jim Frost) writes: >(This discussion doesn't really belong here so I've redirected >followups to comp.unix.wizards) > >In article <657@mace.cc.purdue.edu> mtr@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Miek Rowan) writes: >|I have a color Sun 3 in my office and it is just unacceptably slow. >|Especially if you want to use X11R2, but it carries on to Sunview >|also. It can get so that scrolling is no better than 1200 baud dial >|up. HP's color workstation is about 100 times faster, although they >|have thier own problems with networking. > >Hmm. I use a Sun 2/120 with x11r2 and it's not "unacceptably slow" >for most things. If you put xterm into "jump" mode you get good speed >on the scrolling. [ I won't do it I won't do it I won't do it I won't do it I won't do it I won't post a followup to this message I won't I won't I won't YAAAHHHHHHH! ] Oh well. This should really be discussed in Sun-Spots (was that a shameless plug or what?). If Miek Rowan has problems with Sun and Sun hardware/software, he would do well to discuss them *in detail* in sun-spots (or in comp.sys.sun). His machine is slow, by the way, because it is a color machine. The color frame buffers are really slow. He might try using just the B&W plane, but I don't know if you can coerce X into doing that. I understand that there are also a few problems with the color implementation of X11R2, so the fault might not lie strictly with the hardware. There are other things that could also be slowing down the machine: insufficient real memory for the demand (you should have at least 4 meg to run SunView acceptably), loaded network, loaded disk server, slow disk server. By the way, you can get sun-spots by either reading the moderated Usenet list comp.sys.sun or by sending in a request to subscribe (please include your Internte address) to "sun-spots-request@rice.edu". To submot an article, either post it to comp.sys.sun (it will get mailed to the right place if you are running the right version of the news software) or mail it to "sun-spots@rice.edu". Turnaround time last week was about 1 to 2 days. But the hurricane has disrupted my life and put me a few days behind. William LeFebvre Sun-Spots moderator Department of Computer Science Rice University