Re: X-win more effiecient than Win95?

1998-01-15 Thread Rick Jones
Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > > Yes, and the functions are not really hidden, they're just not documented. > But heck, what _is_ documented in Win95? The "trouble shooting" help > doesn't get you far beyond "is the printer switched on?" and "check that > the cable is plugged in". Very true. I think t

Re: X-win more effiecient than Win95?

1998-01-15 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Rick Jones wrote: > Orn E. Hansen wrote: > > No, Windows is not an interface... and it's a lot more than just a GUI, > > it's > > an operating system as well (as of Win95, WinNT). > > The box that you buy when you buy Windoze 95 contains an operating > system which i

Re: X-win more effiecient than Win95?

1998-01-15 Thread Rick Jones
Orn E. Hansen wrote: > No, Windows is not an interface... and it's a lot more than just a GUI, it's > an operating system as well (as of Win95, WinNT). The box that you buy when you buy Windoze 95 contains an operating system which is called Windows 95. That box contains MSDOS 7.0 and W

Re: X-win more effiecient than Win95?

1998-01-14 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 14-Jan-98 skrifar Rick Jones: > Not true. 1) X MUST be operating to benchmark CDE, KDE, or Afterstep > etc. 2) > To acurately benchmark the performance of software 'whatever' you have to > include > the processes that are handled by X. So you would have to benchmark the > combnation X

Re: X-win more effiecient than Win95?

1998-01-14 Thread Keith Beattie
Tim Thomson wrote: > > A friend of mine asked me if X-win was more efficient than Win95 on the > same system? > > I said it would probably be better for somethings, and maybe slower than > others, but I wasn't sure - so I though to ask you people. > > Anyone done any benchmarks??? > This is no

Re: X-win more effiecient than Win95?

1998-01-14 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 14-Jan-98 skrifar George Bonser: > On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Rick Jones wrote: > >> This is somewhat incorrect, George. Yes. X uses a protocol called XDMCP to >> allow xfer's of information, as you have explained, between local and remote >> machines. And X uses sockets and protocols when used

Re: X-win more effiecient than Win95?

1998-01-14 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Tim Thomson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A friend of mine asked me if X-win was more efficient than Win95 on the > same system? Depends on how you define "efficient". I usually use different computers in my department, and the first thing I do is to install a X-Server for Win32, so I can use al

X-win more effiecient than Win95?

1998-01-14 Thread Tim Thomson
Hi, A friend of mine asked me if X-win was more efficient than Win95 on the same system? I said it would probably be better for somethings, and maybe slower than others, but I wasn't sure - so I though to ask you people. Anyone done any benchmarks??? Thanks for any help, Tim. --- Debian/GNU L