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Aucbvax.1935 fa.works utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!Griss@UTAH-20 Thu Jun 25 15:50:24 1981 APOLLO net I have seen a two node configuration of Apollo's working (Mountain View Branch), and was able to see a file shipped from one node to the other, and to compare the times required to count the number of lines in the local copy and also in the remote copy, accessed via "//<HOST>file..". It was interesting that in the first test, the times local and remote were essentially; after a reboot, the remote time increased slightly (about 5%). This was explained as an effect of the Unique global ID; in the first test, the system "knew" the local and remote file by the same Global ID, and also that the local copy was in the Memory space.

I do not recall the exact number of lines (it was a LARGE file), and the time was about 1minute. The timing was done by submitting to the SHell the concatenated commands:

time; countlines //host/... ; time; (This is NOT verbatim).

We also saw the multiple INPUT/OUTPUT windows and PADs working, the various Display Manager options, the ability to Grow and Shrink windows, the ability to run separate processes in each Window (in this case, it was Edit in one, LIST in the other, as I recall).

We were not able to see any real graphics (ie line drawing), tho a small program was demonstrated that was able to BLT screen areas around.

Martin Griss -------

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