Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!mailrus!iuvax!pur-ee!j.cc.purdue.edu!mace.cc.purdue.edu!mtr From: mtr@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Miek Rowan) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Starting remote xterms Message-ID: <1255@mace.cc.purdue.edu> Date: 1 Dec 88 04:33:44 GMT References: <5345@polya.Stanford.EDU> <4292@umd5.umd.edu> <4293@umd5.umd.edu> Organization: Unix Groupie Lines: 18 In article <4293@umd5.umd.edu>, jonnyg@umd5.umd.edu (Jon Greenblatt) writes: > by numerous external events then rlogin is more efficient. If speed is > at all important to you xterm is 5-10 times faster. I now remove the foot > from my mouth. I established this using a netwatch program. I still > prefer rlogin becuse I have always had problems with lingering processes and > what not using xterm remotely. Maybe I'm just old fashioned. But with the rsh's you can totally dedicate your slow workstation to running the X server (and unix) -- I find the degradation with some 20 windows open too much (when running all the xterms (and whatnot) on the workstation) Offload those things to other peoples machines! Be Inconsiderate! ;-) Besides, when I get mad at Sun and thier product I can still use my workstation without even having a login shell there. It is great :-) ;-) mtr