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From: andy@cheviot.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: What has X been ported to?
Message-ID: <2130@cheviot.newcastle.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 7-May-87 07:55:44 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  7 07:55:44 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 9-May-87 08:00:56 EDT
Reply-To: andy@cheviot.newcastle.ac.uk (Andy Linton)
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We anticipate using some fairly cheap device to support the X display
server and have the client running elsewhere connected via Ethernet.
This poses a number of questions:

a) Whether anybody has any idea about the load an X client imposes on
the CPU - if say a VAX-750 would support 8 vt100 users, how many users
would it support if those users were running X?

b) Whether anybody has any idea of the load X imposes on an Ethernet,
with say the client on one machine interacting with the device and X server
on another machine.

c) What machines, especially at the bottom end of the price scale, have
had or are having the X server code ported to them. Details of screen
size/resolution, price of machine and software cost/availability would
be most useful.

Replies by post please and I will summarise to the net in due course.

Thanks
andy






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