From: cj_watts@csd.brispoly.ac.uk (Chris Watts) Subject: Re: Offical windows Date: 1 May 1992 08:57:11 GMT
In article <1992May1.082946.24540@csd.brispoly.ac.uk> d_smith@csd.bristol-poly.ac.uk writes:
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>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.
>
Actually its less than every one thinks.
Acording to a book that I have just got it says that the best place to
start for X windows is a 33Mhz 386 with at least 4MBytes ram and 100Mbytes
disk space for all the executables.
If you are going to have a window system on unix it would be best to have
X windows since there is more support for X unlike other window systems I
have heard of. It would also be easier to write you own programs using X,
comparing the ease to create an X client comparing to a Dos windows3 program.
And putting a windows system in kernel would probabley slow the kernel down.
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