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lee@sq.sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin) writes:

>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.
>
> ......
>
>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
>

Assuming you have enough workstation to go round.  I have three
window systems on my small IPC.  First, a minimalist homebrew
NeWS-only server that's pretty fast (but not as fast as 8 1/2, sigh).
Second X11r4, which is OK as long as you don't try to do stuff
in lots of different windows.  Thirdly, xnews, which is diabolical
if you want to do much more than scroll through a file:-(.

I hate X11 for the reason that it is a classic `gas-guzzling' piece
of software.  Because of this, I'm forced to hate xnews as well,
since it chews up even more resources on ever simpler tasks.  Why
should I have to buy more and more memory and disc just because
someone somewhere isn't as bothered about the performance that the
user sees as I am?

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