schneidr@cs.washington.edu (Scott Schneider) (06/12/90)
[Sorry for the post but my mail to Jim Rees was rejected.] Jim, In response to your posting about patch psk5 from Apollo concerning the big performance increase for X, how much of an increase in performance will I see? (an informal response like "a whole lot" or "it's really fast" is ok; formal benchmarks even better) I have been really discouraged by the performance of X on the Apollo. I was told by an Apollo engineer that X at SR10.2 (we are at SR10.2) would have good performance. I'm sorry, but I don't see it. We are committed to Apollos as our engineering workstation but I can't see delivering products to our customers with user interfaces with *slow* response times. Is there any hope? Or is this patch psk5 my answer? BTW, I have a DN3000 with 8 Mb at SR10.2. Do we need a DN10000 with 32 Mb on every desk? A hopeful Apollo user, Scott schneidr@june.cs.washington.edu -- Scott Schneider | "Communication with an engineer is | Boeing Commercial | only slightly more difficult than | schneidr@june.cs.washington.edu | communication with the dead." |