[comp.sys.apollo] Patch psk5 for Apollo X performance boost

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

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