Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!cbnews!cbnewsm!mls From: mls@cbnewsm.att.com (mike.siemon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga 3000UX Summary: mem. requirements for OPEN LOOK Message-ID: <1991Jan12.155932.18406@cbnewsm.att.com> Date: 12 Jan 91 15:59:32 GMT References: <388@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au> Distribution: na Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 38 In article <388@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>, pal@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (Philip Leverton) writes (among other interesting points) > Our system only had 5 Mb of memory which meant that using Open Look/olwm > was painful since the system was limited by very frequent disk accesses. > As I think the docs say, 8 or 16 Mb would be much better. AT&T/USL recommends a minimum of 6 Megabytes for OPEN LOOK* at this stage (we're working on reducing this; it used to need 8 -- X tends in general to be a real memory hog). I would agree that doing anything serious needs 8 meg. > As another poster mentioned, I could't find a way to get Open Look > going in colour. I'm sure that's doable -- I've seen color operating at the UNIX International booth at las fall's UNIX Expo in NYC. > Also I couldn't figure out how to authorise X programs to display on > the Amiga under Open Look. I'm sure I tried looking for obvious things > like xhosts or menu options but had no luck. That seems odd; an xinit or olinit from the console *should* fire up a server and xterm or OL workspace, allowing local clients, and xhost + should allow running of clients from elsewhere; since you say you've run Amiga clients on other servers, I assume your networking is all set up OK. Dunno about the cshell, but if I fire up the server as a background task under the Korn shell it waits and has to be brought into the foreground to get going. You should have a "virtual" terminal switch at that point. All of this is generic SVR4.0 and OL, and I wouldn't expect it to differ on an Amiga. ------ * OPEN LOOK, UNIX, etc., etc. are trademarks of USL, etc. etc. -- Michael L. Siemon We must know the truth, and we must m.siemon@ATT.COM love the truth we know, and we must ...!att!attunix!mls act according to the measure of our love. standard disclaimer -- Thomas Merton