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Article #2017Re: Tradeoffs between DEC & MIT servers
From: Mike Ewan
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 1990 22:46
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 1990 22:46
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In article <1990Sep6.133417.10252@cs.utk.edu> Dave Sill <de5@ornl.gov> writes: >What are the tradeoffs between the DEC UWS server and the MIT R4 >server? I'm considerring switching from the DEC to the MIT because I >want R4 features and don't like DEC's nonstandard font mechanism. I >realize I'd be loosing Display PostScript--not a big deal to me at >this point--but what about performance? Are there any other >differences? Is this a good idea? I've used both, although I haven't used the DEC windows server extensively, and the MIT server/clients are far faster. Also you get more choices for window managers and other goodies. Mike -- Michael Ewan (503)627-6468 Internet: mike@raven.USS.TEK.COM Unix Systems Support UUCP: ...!tektronix!puffin!raven!mike Tektronix, Inc. Compuserve: 73747,2304 "Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches/sec."--J. Hart
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tekgen!raven.uss.tek.com!mike From: mike@raven.uss.tek.com (Mike Ewan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Tradeoffs between DEC & MIT servers Message-ID: <6524@tekgen.BV.TEK.COM> Date: 7 Sep 90 22:46:51 GMT References: <1990Sep6.133417.10252@cs.utk.edu> Sender: news@tekgen.BV.TEK.COM Reply-To: mike@raven.uss.tek.com (Mike Ewan) Followup-To: comp.sys.dec Organization: Tektronix, Inc. Beaverton OR Lines: 19