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To: Prognosticator who wrote (22722)	11/10/1999 5:01:00 PM
From: Thomas Mercer-Hursh	Respond to of 64865

It would be a lot more amazing in reverse. Even back in the late 80s with much more primitive emulator technology and running X across a network, one could get pretty credible performance. This depended to some degree on the application, of course -- graphics intensive ones obviously doing less well, but the biggest problem back then wasn't performance, but rather whether it would run at all. To make the comparison more meaningful, one would obviously like to start by having some numbers instead of just anecdotal evidence, but even then one would like to compare like to like. I.e., what applications are we talking about and what is the relationship to the same application or an equivalent running natively.