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Article #27Re: apps that use news
From: Frank Peters
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 22:34
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 22:34
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In article <1992Aug10.053002.16211@balr.com> wrv@balr.com (Bill Vogel) says: : People who bitch and moan about how slow NeWS is, ad nauseum... just : don't get the picture. Most people aren't complaining about how slow NeWS is per se (some may be but most aren't). The problem is that Sun has a single server (xnews) which provides both X11 and NeWS support. That server is considerably slower than the MIT pure X11 server on the same platform. Since NeWS is commonly perceived as the "extra" (most people running xnews are more interested in the X than the NeWS) it gets the blame for the slowdown. Through several layers of fuzzy this becomes "NeWS is slow". We could debate for ever the relative merits of NeWS and X and MGR and what have you. I think that its pretty obvious, though, that trying to support more than one windowing system in the same server is going to have a performance hit. -- Frank Peters - UNIX Systems Programmer - Mississippi State University Internet: fwp@CC.MsState.Edu - Phone: (601)325-7030 - FAX: (601)325-8921
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.news Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gatech!darwin.sura.net!nntp.msstate.edu!news From: fwp@CC.MsState.Edu (Frank Peters) Subject: Re: apps that use news Message-ID: <1992Aug10.223414.431@ra.msstate.edu> Sender: news@ra.msstate.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: jester.cc.msstate.edu Organization: Computing Center, Mississippi State University References: <1992Aug10.053002.16211@balr.com> Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 22:34:14 GMT Lines: 20