Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!solo.csci.unt.edu!sol!mstgil From: mstgil@sol (Marc Ph. A. J. St.-Gil) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: Xwindows on PC Message-ID: Date: 5 May 91 22:29:40 GMT References: <74931@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Sender: usenet@solo.csci.unt.edu (Usenet News) Reply-To: mstgil@sol.acs.unt.edu Organization: University of North Texas, Denton Lines: 21 v056pfqe@ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu (Richard M Humphrey) writes: >I got a great deal on a 386-33 which I'm going to run under Unix. That's >not a problem, but I want to use X windows and I don't know if it's available, >but that's not so much a problem as this: >If I get this PC what kind of display should I buy that will run X windows. >Thanks! > -Rich >humphrey@acsu.buffalo.edu > or >V056PFQE@UBVMSA.CC.BUFFALO.EDU Better get a superVGA card and a 16+" monitor that can handle an absolute minimum of 1024x768 if you want to do _anything_ productive. I don't ever officially recommend anything less. This means about a $3000 investment, +/- $1500 for quality and awesome deals. -- Marc St.-Gil, UNIX Systems Administrator mstgil@{sol,vaxa,vaxb}.acs.unt.edu University of North Texas 817/565-2324 mstgil@{ponder,solo}.csci.unt.edu Academic Computing Services DISCLAIMER: My employers had no idea I was PO Box 13495, Denton TX, 76203 going to say that.