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From: tobeye@NORTHSTAR.DARTMOUTH.EDU (Anthony Edwards)
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
Subject: messages/vui speeds
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Date: 22 Sep 89 13:04:08 GMT
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     At our Project, NORTHSTAR, most of our RT's have only 4 Mb of
memory and a bunch of our machines are IBM 6152's.  This makes running
messages very slow.

     One thing I've observed is that vui runs quick.  What is the major
difference between these two programs that causes such a large speed
difference?  The obvious difference of graphical versus terminal based
interface doesn't suggest such a large speed difference to me (although
I could be wrong).  Are there other, major features that messages is
utilizing that vui doesn't?

   - Anthony Edwards