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From: splin@nima.berkeley.edu (Steven Lin)
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Subject: Re: wouldn't it be nice if....
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Date: 20 May 91 19:35:44 GMT
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In article <8524@uceng.UC.EDU> dsims@uceng.UC.EDU (david l sims) writes:
>bchen@wpi.WPI.EDU (Bi Chen) writes:
>
>>I wounder if a 2400 bps modem would ever be fast enough to make a 386
>>an X terminal? Isn't it impossible or is it?
>
>I recall reading that X Windows requires at least a 19.2K serial line to run
>at a "just okay" level.  

Last summer when I was dabbling with SLIP, I decided to see how well
X would run over a serial line.  I connected an X Terminal to a 
Sparcstation 1+ through the serial port running at 9600 baud.  The 
performance was barely adequate.  Opening and moving windows were intolerably
slow.  The terminal would virtually freeze if it ever required a font that
wasn't present.  I can't imagine what life would be like at 2400 baud.