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wrv@balr.com (Bill Vogel) says:
> People who bitch and moan about how slow NeWS is, ad nauseum... just
> don't get the picture.

fwp@CC.MsState.Edu (Frank Peters) writes:
> [...] 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.

I dispute that.  If you compare OpenWindows 3 with X11R4, you'll find that
there's little difference, but that OpenWindows 3 is generally faster - a
lot of benchmarks were posted when OW3 came out...
If you're comparing OpenWindows 3 and X11R5, you'll find that X11R5 is faster,
of course - it's newer.  Few, if any, commercial workstation vendors have
moved to X11R5 yet - and I know of several rather large companies that still
ship X11R3 for various reasons.

It is not at all clear to me that there is a large performance loss, as you
imply, from including the NeWS support in the OpenWindows xnews server.

Or the other way round, for that matter.

Lee

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