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From: protcoop@bnr-public.uucp (Joel Avery)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech,comp.windows.x,comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Request for testers for Color X11 for Amiga
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Date: 9 Jun 89 20:09:47 GMT
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Reply-To: protcoop@bnr-public.UUCP (Joel Avery)
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I hope that X11 does not represent the future of the Amiga windowing
environment ... please Mr. Luck, tell me it is not so.  3 meg of
memory needed !?  7 meg of mass storage!?  One of the things I brag
to people here at work about is that while they run Un*x and   
X-windows in a 8meg/40meg environment, they often run out of memory
when multitasking.  At home on my Amiga with 512k and 2 floppies,
I can do much better, plus my windows are much faster.  When I had
1.5 meg of memory, I could just scream with all kinds of stuff running.
If the Amiga were to use X11, sure it would be 'standard', but oh
what a hog it would be.  I, for one, would be sure to drop her.
Please, oh please tell me this cannot be so.
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