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In article <12528@watcgl.waterloo.edu> idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu writes:

> From: "Ian! D. Allen [CGL]" <idallen>
> 
> DEC showed off a 8Mb VAXstation 3100 and a 16Mb DECstation 3100.  The VAX
> was running VMS; the RISC was running Ultrix.  Both ran X windows.
> 
> What surprised me was the lack of speed of the RISC machine when dealing with
> the graphics display.  The VAX (at one-fifth the CPU speed) with its hardware
> assist moved pixels around the screen about twice as fast as the RISC.
> (I was using the cut/drag feature of dxpaint and the xplaid demo as tests.)

I used to use a VS3100, 8 Meg, 24 Meg swap, RZ23, Ultrix 3.0, pretty
intensively as a big X-terminal, and it almost never even hesitated.

The DS3100s I've used, 16 Meg, 65 Meg swap, RZ55, Ultrix 3.0, build
kernels at least twice as fast, and move pixels around fast enough to
have an animated background (spaceout).  My VS3100 would have choked
trying to do that.

I haven't done much testing than that.

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