Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!acorn!ixi!ixi!pd From: pd@x.co.uk (Paul Davey) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif Subject: Re: X response on a 386, how good is it? Message-ID: Date: 3 Apr 91 15:14:17 GMT References: <9103251356.AA14882@ge-dab.GE.COM> <9103280333.AA05145@pandonia.canberra.edu.au> Sender: paul@x.co.uk (Paul Davey) Distribution: inet Organization: IXI Ltd. Lines: 16 In-Reply-To: jan@pandonia.canberra.edu.au's message of 28 Mar 91 18:33:16 GMT >>>>> On 28 Mar 91 18:33:16 GMT, jan@pandonia.canberra.edu.au (Jan Newmarch) said: Jan> I once had the experience of running Interactive Unix + X server + mwm Jan> + applications on a 20Mhz 386 with 4Mb RAM. I wouldn't ever do it again: Jan> it would take 26 seconds to start up an application. This is quite simply Jan> because of lack of memory. What you need to make it workable I don't know, Jan> because the system died before I could afford more memory. I recomend 8Mb minimium for realistic performance on a workstations running Motif. -- Regards, pd@x.co.uk IXI Limited Paul Davey pd@ixi.uucp 62-74 Burleigh St. ...!uunet!ixi!pd Cambridge U.K. "These are interesting times" +44 223 462 131 CB1 1OJ USA: 1 800 XDESK 57