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From: schoeller@gvriel.dec.com (Dick Schoeller, MLO4-1/C32, DTN 223-1670)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: A Thought on X Terminals
Message-ID: <8902230254.AA08347@decwrl.dec.com>
Date: 23 Feb 89 05:45:00 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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>In fact, it shouldn't need any swap at all.  If a windowing terminal
>doesn't swap, why should a diskless client used as one swap?  Suppose
>tomorrow's OS release supports a config option:
>option	NOVIRTUAL_MEMORY
 
Dick St.Peters makes some interesting comments about where we can expect
windowing terminals to end up.  However, it is unlikely that we are going
to see the above have a reasonable performance in the near future.  The
typical style of developing X applications would have to change drastically
to allow a server to run in limited memory (<16meg) without paging resources.
Especially if the user expects to run more than 10-12 large toolkit clients
simultaneously.

Disclaimer:  The above statements blatantly plagerized fom comments made
by Sgt. Rosenthal  8^{) at the X Technical Conference.

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