Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer:2523 comp.windows.x:27640 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mephisto!prism!sun13!ds1.scri.fsu.edu!gaspo From: gaspo@ds1.scri.fsu.edu (Scott Gasparian) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer,comp.windows.x Subject: Re: X windows on PCs - Who has the best ?? Message-ID: <866@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> Date: 1 Oct 90 15:57:35 GMT References: <4d238f0b.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> Sender: news@sun13.scri.fsu.edu Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer Distribution: usa Organization: SCRI, Florida State University Lines: 52 Well, I'll through my $.02 in. Here's what we use: GSS PCXview/16, X-server. FTP Software's PC/TCP kernel only Machines include 286@12 and original AT, 386@25 First of all, if you don't have any extended memory, forget it. Two xterms and a wm are all you'll get up. 2-4 megs will be fine, and 4 has been more than enough for anything and everything you could want. Second, VGA or higher. forget ega. (<-period). Haven't seen it on a DIGA or SVGA. (I'm using a 512k VGA and it's great). Drawback is 16 colors only. Use a fast ethernet card. We use WD's 8013EBT (16bit) cards. 8bits tend to be too-slow. Fonts are local on the PC, and comes with satandard adobe sets. I've compiled all sorts of others w/o any problems (kana14, etc...). These are the machines I've used to use as clients w/o any problems: DEC5000, Ultrix 4.0 r176, XR3 and XR4 Sun 3/60, 3.5, XR3 (I think). Sun SPARC, 4.0 XR4 VAX6000, Ultrix32 v3.1b rev10, XR? and a slew of others. Mind you, this is just a server. No local crunching done. All in all, decent, relativelly cheap way to get some use out of the old AT's we had laying around. Adress: Graphic Software Systems, Inc. 9590 SW Gemini Dr. Beaverton, OR 97005 503-641-2200 Ask for Nancy Kirkpatrick, and tell her I sent you. #include /----------------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Scott "gaspo" Gasparian - Teenage Mutant Ninja Technician | "back user!"| | Supercomputer Computations Research Institute |\ ,_ _/\ | | 400 SCL, F.S.U., Tallahassee, FL 32306-4052 |/ _/ '__ \| | gaspo@ds1.scri.fsu.edu | "I do NOT do lunch, I do NOT ||/ / ,," __o/| | gaspo@scri1.scri.fsu.edu | wear 'power ties', and I do | \_\|_\, / | | (904) 644-4277 / 222-5630 | NOT EVER do COBOL! Get it?!" | /+-+-\ _/\_ | \----------------------------------------------------------------------------/