Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!world!unixland!bill
From: bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,ba.windows.x
Subject: Re: Running X windows on a 16MHz 386sx
Message-ID: <1990Oct7.022705.12488@unixland.uucp>
Date: 7 Oct 90 02:27:05 GMT
References: <14220@netcom.UUCP>
Organization: The Think_Tank BBS & Public Access Unix
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In article <14220@netcom.UUCP> boba@netcom.UUCP (Bob Amstadt) writes:
>Is anyone running Sys V Unix and X windows on a 386sx based machine?
>I'm interested in knowing what the performance is like.
>-- 

I doubt that it would be very good ...  I am running Esix on a 386(DX)/25,
and while the system performance is just fine in "normal terminal" mode,
the Xwindows performance is nothing to write home about.  I hear that
X11R4 will be faster though.

I doubt that a 16/20 MHz 386SX will be sufficient to run Xwindows,
although it may be OK for normal apps.

Bill
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