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From: ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu (Geraldo Veiga)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: 386 configuration tradeoffs
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Date: 20 Mar 91 22:47:20 GMT
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In article <24744@hydra.gatech.EDU> ken@dali.gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii) writes:
>In article <1335@b1.babss.UUCP> uunet!babss!wadswort writes:
>>I'm considering purchasing a system for home use. I will run
>>*nix,X11,GNU etc.
>>
>>386 33mhz or 25 mhz?
>>Is the 25 _that_ much slower?
>
>Yes...though 25MHz is pretty reasonable for home use.
>
A reminder.  You your are buying a 387 (which is a good idea for X)
have a look at 486 prices.  A 486 motherboard can be a better deal than
386/33 + Coprocessor.
>>
>>Svga or vga?
>
>Svga.  X is terribly cramped (I say useless, but thats just me) with 
>less than 800x600.

Svga is a complicated business for XWin.  You have to consider if the
X-server you will be running supports your graphics board.  The best
vga X-server around is freeware -- X386. It supports best Tseng Labs
(T400) based cards.  It will go up to 1024x768 non-interlaced if your
monitor goes along with it.