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Conference bulova::decw_jan-89_to_nov-90

Title:DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90
Notice:See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit
Moderator:STAR::VATNE
Created:Mon Oct 30 1989
Last Modified:Mon Dec 31 1990
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3726
Total number of notes:19516

1562.0. "CONTESSA, 3100 worse than SUN" by HGOVC::JIMMYCHAN () Thu Oct 12 1989 03:15

    My customer have tested the CASE software CONTESSA both on DECstation
    3100, SUN SPARCstation 1, it came out the result that our screen
    display performance is half the performance of SUN.  The customer did
    not write any coding, they just used CONTESSA to generate some
    spreadsheet displays and we are much slower than SUN.
    
    They used SUNview window system instead of Xwindows, is that make the
    difference?
    
    Can we suspect CONTESSA not fully utilize our DECwindows?
    
    

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1562.1Some ports are better than othersSDSVAX::SWEENEYI was focused when focus wasnt coolFri Oct 13 1989 12:157
    Yes, you've guessed correctly.  Many third parties are incompetently
    porting their software to DEC platforms.  So I'm not surprised.
    
    Contessa is a financial application and such applications are close to
    my heart.  Please mail me your contact at Contessa (Prophecy
    Development Corp) and I'll see what I can do.

1562.2HK has no Contessa distributorHGOVC::JIMMYCHANMon Oct 16 1989 06:3812
    
    Re. 1
    
    I am from Hong Kong Software Services, and there is no distributor of
    Contessa at Hong Kong.  The customer bought the software directly from
    States.  So I don't have any contact to Contessa right now.
    
    By the way, the customer is Jardine Flaming.
    
    Regards,
    Jimmy Chan