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Article #2019Re: Tradeoffs between DEC & MIT servers
From: Ken Lee
Date: Sat, 08 Sep 1990 01:05
Date: Sat, 08 Sep 1990 01:05
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In article <6524@tekgen.BV.TEK.COM>, mike@raven.uss.tek.com (Mike Ewan) writes: |> 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. If you do an objective test, you should find that the current DEC and MIT servers are roughly equivalent in performance. Any client, including window managers, using the standard X11 protocol should work properly with either server (modulo bugs and font availability). Ken Lee DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif. Internet: klee@wsl.dec.com uucp: uunet!decwrl!klee
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!bacchus.pa.dec.com!wsl.dec.com!klee From: klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec Subject: Re: Tradeoffs between DEC & MIT servers Message-ID: <1990Sep8.010524.16190@wrl.dec.com> Date: 8 Sep 90 01:05:24 GMT References: <1990Sep6.133417.10252@cs.utk.edu> <6524@tekgen.BV.TEK.COM> Sender: news@wrl.dec.com (News) Reply-To: klee@wsl.dec.com Organization: DEC Western Software Laboratory Lines: 15