From: tm110@cl.cam.ac.uk (T. Morley) Subject: Re: Maybe no one noticed: mouse problem (possible) Date: 7 Jun 1992 15:37:06 GMT
In article <5185@umriscc.isc.umr.edu> dminer@mcs213e.cs.umr.edu (Dan Miner) writes:
>
> Many will say... Write it for X.. Can you say catch-22?
>"I can't run X! No <fill in the blank>"
>I am one of these people. I have no mouse, 2 megs ram, 40 megs.
>WD90C00 card (Paradise/Western Digtial). 386SX-20 MHz
>I got alot of expanding to do just to run any "X like" server.
>
Hmm, strange you say you can't run X, and yet you specify a machine
that it capable of doing so (apart from the mouse, which cost all of
15 quid these days!). Last night I installed X in a 16 Mhz 386sx
with all of 2Mb of ram and 20 Mb of hard disk, and it seemed to be useable
(apart from the mouse being the wrong type so X didn't recognise it),
but the speed seemed up to scratch (I was trying to swap a bit too much,
but another 2Mb would fix that).
Tim M.