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From: bzs@Encore.COM (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: A Thought on X Terminals
Message-ID: <4968@xenna.Encore.COM>
Date: 23 Feb 89 20:00:41 GMT
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Organization: Encore Computer Corp, Marlboro, MA
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In-reply-to: schoeller@gvriel.dec.com's message of 23 Feb 89 05:45:00 GMT
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>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.
>
>Dick Schoeller			| ARPA:  schoeller%gvriel.dec@decwrl.dec.com

In defense of Dick St Peters servers *obviously* can run on such
systems, that's exactly what Visual, NCD and others are selling! I
don't understand your objection.

If what you mean is that one couldn't run their *clients* on a
non-paging system, sure, who said they could? Essentially what Dick
was proposing was building his own Visual/NCD etc out of a diskless
Sun3/50 by turning off paging in the kernel, unless I seriously
misunderstood his note. He expects the clients to be running elsewhere
and only the server to run on the diskless machine.

	-Barry Shein, ||Encore||