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From: karl@quercus.gsfc.nasa.gov (Karl Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: Will more memory really help OpenWindows on a Sun 3/50?
Keywords: OpenWindows memory
Message-ID: <1991Feb13.194336@quercus.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Date: 14 Feb 91 00:43:36 GMT
References: <1991Feb13.165804.27453@rigel.econ.uga.edu>
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In article <1991Feb13.165804.27453@rigel.econ.uga.edu>,
glenn@rigel.econ.uga.edu (Glenn F. Leavell) writes:
|> 
|> I have a Sun 3/50 with the stardard 4Meg of memory.  I've been
thinking of
|> upgrading its memory so that I can efficiently run OpenWindows.  Is
it worth
|> it?  I've heard from some people that it's not even worth trying to
run
|> OpenWindows on a Sun 3/50.  Does anyone out there run OpenWindows on
|> such a machine, and what kind of performance do you get?
|> 

We have two 3/50s with 8 Mb of RAM.  Their owners were using SunView,
but have
found OW to be more functional, and the performance is satisfactory
enough that
both have made OW their default environments.

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