Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!crdgw1!sungod!davidsen From: davidsen@sungod.crd.ge.com (ody) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: What differentiates a Workstation from a PC (Re: What should GNU run on (was Re: what kinds of things . . .)) Message-ID: <1716@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Date: 16 Aug 89 17:56:20 GMT References: <20519@adm.BRL.MIL> <36370@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <5665@ficc.uu.net> <5687@ficc.uu.net> <12035@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: General Electric Corp. R&D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 18 In article <12035@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> cjc@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Chris Calabrese[mav]) writes: | A 25Mhz '386 AT&T box running X windows is slower than | a Sun 3/60 running NeWS, yet the '386 has more raw cpu power. I | believe this is due to the above mentioned differences in the way the | graphics boards work. I don't know who's X you were looking at, but I don't think that's a general characteristic. I have seen the INteractive X and it is so much faster than a 3/60 (or Sun 4, for that matter) that it looks like a canned demo. Since I was telling the demo person what to type I'm sure it was really doing the commands. I agree that there are some versions of X which are (a) old and (b) slow. Hear me, SCO?? bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM) {uunet | philabs}!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me