andrewt@watsnew.waterloo.edu (Andrew Thomas) (12/16/89)
In article <118@cbmcats.UUCP> ken@cbmcats.UUCP (Ken Farinsky) writes:
Did everyone see color x-windows running on the ULowell board under
unix at the toronto WOC? 1024x768, 256 colors. It was only a
technology preview, but it looked good!
Perhaps we'll lose the "game machine" image.
For the non-believers out there, I was at the Toronto show. They had
SYSV3.2 and SYSVR4 running on two machines there. The SYSV3.2 machine
was also running color X windows. The window manager was uwm (gag)
but the important point is that it was running standard X stuff. It
was X version 11 R3 as far as I could tell. There were several X jobs
on the machine: 2 xterms, puzzle, mandlebrot generator. The response
time from the Unix was better than our microvaxes, or sun3/160, or sun
3/50 - most comparable to our sparcserver. The response from X was
slower than R3 on a uvax, except for text which really flew, but
faster than on a sun 3/160. The demonstrator was telling us about
using GNU Emacs on the machine to do her editing in an X window,
taking her files off a Vax750 (780?) file server via NFS because her
Amiga had so much better response time. This fills me with hope.
The only negative observation I could make about the X implementation
is that they had not figured out everything about the cursor. It
occasionally left square grey blocks if it was moved while X was too
busy. I did not get to see any imaging. I also did not see X running
under SYSVR4.
Neither system showed any signs of flakiness except the previously
observed cursor problem.
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Andrew Thomas
andrewt@watsnew.waterloo.edu Systems Design Eng. University of Waterloo
"If a million people do a stupid thing, it's still a stupid thing." - Opus