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From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: 386/ix X11 info wanted: Summary
Message-ID: <879@omen.UUCP>
Date: 9 Dec 89 12:56:32 GMT
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Reply-To: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg)
Organization: Omen Technology INC Portland OR
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I can speak from experience that one can run 386/ix X11 on a 4 MB machine.
To be precise, on an Everex 3000A with 1MB 32 bit RAM and a motley
collection of 16 bit memory boards to bring the total to about 3.7 MB.
It's still faster than TSO in the old days...  Xbigphoon took several
minutes.  A good disk drive exceriser.

On a 10 MB machine xbigphoon does its thing in about 9 seconds.
Might be faster with a 387.

BTW, when I upgraded to 2.02 the mouse (Logitech bus mouse or Microsoft
bus mouse) became hyper sensitive to the point of near unusability.
The only change was installing the 2.02 upgrade.  Is there a fix for
this?  The icons are rather difficult to touch now.

Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX          ...!tektronix!reed!omen!caf 
Author of YMODEM, ZMODEM, Professional-YAM, ZCOMM, and DSZ
  Omen Technology Inc    "The High Reliability Software"
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