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Subject: Re: Running X windows on a 16MHz 386sx
Message-ID: <1990Oct16.060422.17071@shawn.uucp>
Date: 16 Oct 90 06:04:22 GMT
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In article <1990Oct13.220633.8294@maths.tcd.ie> tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) writes:
>In <1990Oct7.022705.12488@unixland.uucp> bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser) writes:
>
>>I doubt that a 16/20 MHz 386SX will be sufficient to run Xwindows,
>>although it may be OK for normal apps.
>
>I read recently a claim that a 386SX with lots of memory
>made a perfectly adequate Unix box (which I took to include X).
>This made quite an impression on me,
>as the author claimed you could get such a setup for $1000.
>(Not including software, I assume.)
>
>It would be nice to hear from someone that has actually done this,
>in the real world.

I would be very surprised if reasonable performance resulted from such a setup.
I am convinced that X could run, given 8 Meg of RAM, but it would be annoyingly
slow.  At 4 Meg of RAM, there would probably be severe swapping problems.