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From: yong@pupthy.princeton.edu (Young Rene)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: Two questions about the 3b1
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Date: 28 May 91 21:07:58 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
	Well, I know it is very hard to make X working on 3b1, but maybe
I am missing something here. On the Macintosh, the MacX application is
about 1-2 Meg, and it runs on a MacII with 2M (barely though). Huge programs
like mathematica also runs fine on a MacII, the application even fit in
a 720K floppy. It is still hard for me to believe 4M/67M is not enough to
run X ...