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From: john@jwt.UUCP (John Temples)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Performance of 80486 based machines running Unix
Keywords: performance 80486 486 unix
Message-ID: <1991Jun23.051631.20763@jwt.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jun 91 05:16:31 GMT
References: <1991Jun20.233523.8184@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1991Jun22.015603.14718@virtech.uucp> <1991Jun22.064103.15333@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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In article <1991Jun22.064103.15333@leland.Stanford.EDU> fangchin@leland.Stanford.EDU (Chin Fang) writes:
>As most readers of this group know, you can run 386 Unix with X11R4 on
>top in 8 megs quite comfortably, at least when there is only one user

and you're not running Motif.  I had my first close encounter with Motif
last week, and was appalled to see one xterm and one Motif demo start an
8 meg system swapping.
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John W. Temples -- john@jwt.UUCP (uunet!jwt!john)