From: d_smith@csd.brispoly.ac.uk (Dylan Smith) Subject: Re: Offical windows Date: 1 May 1992 08:29:46 GMT
In article <1992Apr28.154621.29219@cs.brown.edu>, wcn@cs.brown.edu (Wen-Chun Ni) writes:
|> Please forgive my ignorance. How many bytes are need to get an X
|> server working? I've never seen any 386-based Unix, so I have no
|> knowledge about that. The Sparcstation with 16mb running X is
|> snappy, but 386? Or should we get a 486 with at least 8mb to run
|> an X? Any information is welcome.
I use two 386's running Interactive System V, one is 25MHz and the other is
33. The 33 is quite snappy (not as good as the SPARC-based Solbourne S4000's
I also use) and the 25 is a bit slow at updating, but is perfectly usable.
The 25MHz has also only got 8Mb, wheras the 33 has 16. The 25 seems to
do a hell of a lot of swapping, wheras the 16 does hardly any.
It's my theorey then, that X will be almost useless if you have less than
8Mb of memory, unless the code is very well optimised.
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