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From: stank@anvil.WV.TEK.COM (Stan Kalinowski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.graphics,comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: x-window on dos or os/2
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Date: 4 Jul 89 21:13:02 GMT
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In article <24828@srcsip.UUCP> rogers@falcon.UUCP (Brynn Rogers) writes:

>>I was under the impression that X was very large and precessor intensive for
>>your average unix machine.  I would think it would drop a 20 Mhz Model 80 to 
>>its knees!
>
>We have Graphics Software systems PC-XVIEW up and running on a compaq 386/25.
>I takes about 500k to run (after all the various drivers are loaded,
>your mileage will vary) and really smokes!  it is designed for a 286, so
>It probably works tolerably fast on one of those. Believe it or not,
>it will even work with EGA.  it works with most of the 800x600 super-VGAs,
>but we use DGIS (Nec MVA1024-- a TI 34010 with 1024x768).

We have PC-XVIEW up on a IBM-PC AT with an EGA graphics adapter.
While the fact that it runs at all in 640K bytes of ram is impressive,
I personally would not want to be forced to use it all day long.  It's
too slow and the screen resolution is too low.  I should temper this
remark by stating that I normally use a 20 MHz 68020 Unix workstation
with 16 Mb of system ram and a high resolution (1376x1024) display,
and so my opinions are biased against smaller/slower machines.  I
suspect that a 386 and a graphics board that has some sort of
accelerator (e.g. the DGIS) is the minimum practical configuration for
PC-XVIEW.  Of course, such a system would probably run Unix and X just
fine, so why bother with MS-DOS? :-) (no flames, please!)

								stank
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