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From: fangchin@leland.Stanford.EDU (Chin Fang)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Performance of 80486 based machines running Unix
Keywords: performance 80486 486 unix
Message-ID: <1991Jun23.055630.24229@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 23 Jun 91 05:56:30 GMT
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In article <1991Jun23.051631.20763@jwt.UUCP>, john@jwt.UUCP (John Temples) writes:
|> 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.

Hmm... I only said X11R4, which usually implies the standard distribution from
MIT.  I guess you agree?
 
Welcome to the age of FAT (fat applications trendy).  I often tell people, women
included of course, that a particular three letter word is worse than any four letter words.

One time I ran SUN's Openwin on a SPARC 1+ with only 8 megs, result?

the poor HD got such a superb work out that even Jean Fonda would feel jealous!

Yo'al have a nice weekend.

Chin Fang
Mechanical Engineering Department
Stanford University
fangchin@leland.stanford.edu