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From: grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu (Dirk Grunwald)
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Subject: Re: A Thought on X Terminals
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Date: 31 Jan 89 02:44:53 GMT
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I tend to agree. A local group is thinking of getting X server terminals.
Unless they can swap resources (i.e. fonts) to backing store, it's not
clear that they're very useful.

e.g., when I use texx2, which uses X fonts instead of bitmaps, my server
suddenly grows to 2.5 or 3.5Mb, depending on the number of fonts I'm
using at once.