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From: ray@stevie.cs.unlv.edu (Ray Tripamer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Request for testers for Color X11 for Amiga
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Date: 11 Jun 89 02:06:49 GMT
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In article <566@bnr-fos.UUCP> protcoop@bnr-public.UUCP (Joel Avery) writes:
>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.

When does unix not multitask :-) ?  Running out of memory on a unix
workstation does not present the same problems as it does on the Amiga,
since a unix machine that runs X typically supports virtual memory
(please let's not start up the virtual memory thread again!).

Clearly, X Window for the Amiga is not for everyone.  Ususally, X Window
is run on a computer attached to a local area network.  This will not be
the case for a lot of Amiga users.  I don't think it is the intention of
Mr. Luck to have X on the Amiga replace the Workbench, but rather to supply
an well-known, useful product for those people who use Amigas on a network.

--
Ray Tripamer
ray@jimi.cs.unlv.edu