macbeth@sdsu.edu (08/10/90)
Have anyone of you happy SPARC 1 users encountered an apparent degradation
in user interface performance? We're evaluating some SPARCs running
Computervision CADDS and are seeing major differences in interface
response from the older Moto-based systems. CADDS makes use of
mouse-selectable "dynamic menus" and the critters are consider- ably less
than dynamic on the SPARCs. Word is that both Sun and CV are "working
feverishly on the problem", but no one has yet really come ` forward to
say what "the problem" _is_. Right now, it's roughly akin ` to having a
Ferrari with _very_ sluggish steering: move the mouse, wait for selection
to highlight, hit the button, wait for execution, and so on. Not a pretty
sight.
I suspect this is CADDS-specific; it can't be too widespread or Sun would
have been lit up long ago. Any comments? Thanks for your time.
David Macy-Beckwith
General Dynamics Data Systems Division, Western Center
Somewhere in or near San Diego
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