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From: jlowrey@skat.usc.edu (John 'Fritz' Lowrey)
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Subject: Re: Two questions about the 3b1
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Date: 28 May 91 17:11:59 GMT
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Don't count on it!
	X-Windows is great if you have MIPS and RAM and disk capacity to 
spare.  According to a recent Unix Week artical (13 May, 1991 p55) the 
minimum functional X-Windows system needs 4MIPS.  We get about 1MIPS out 
of the well loved 3b1.  It goes on the say that a networked X-Manager needs
approximately "1/2 to 1 gigabyte of additional fileserver diskspace..." for
swapping.  Call me kooky, but the 67meg 3b1 limit looks a bit puny in 
comparison.  To top it all off, the stated RAM requirements look to be about
16meg for X11R4.

	What I suppose this all amounts to is that the 3b1 was never intended
to run X-Windows, nor was X-Windows written in anticipation of use on a 3b1.

						Later...
						Fritz

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                                        J. "Fritz" Lowrey
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