From: hlu@phys1.physics.wsu.edu (Hongjiu Lu) Subject: Re: Offical windows Date: 1 May 1992 18:23:09 GMT
In article <1992May1.082946.24540@csd.brispoly.ac.uk>, d_smith@csd.brispoly.ac.uk (Dylan Smith) writes:
|> 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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|> dylan@brispoly.hal | dylan@hal.brispoly.ac.uk
I am running X11R4 with 386sx-16 MHz and 4MB RAM. It is very usable. I love
it. I can do coding and testing for my X11R4 code.
H.J.