Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!ico!auto-trol!marbru From: marbru@auto-trol.UUCP (Martin Brunecky) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Speeding up Sun 4 X? Keywords: Megabytes, memory hog Message-ID: <568@auto-trol.UUCP> Date: 3 Jan 90 23:40:38 GMT References: <33410@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <9001021710.AA11011@dart.cs.byu.edu> <50334@bbn.COM> Reply-To: marbru@auto-trol.com (Martin Brunecky) Organization: Auto-trol Technology, Denver Lines: 33 In article <50334@bbn.COM> pplacewa@antares.bbn.com (Paul W Placeway) writes: > >I expect the X servers from MIT to be a bit big, because they are >demonstrations of new ideas, with size a low concern, and the vendor >implimentations be carefully trimmed to work well on their hardware. >Unfortunately, I don't think this will be the case. I can see Sun >trimming xnews by 50% if they are _real_ careful, but that will still >leav it at just under 3 TIMES the size of the X11R3 refrence server. > >Ga. Will I need 128 Meg in my machine in 1999, just to edit files? >Remember when Unix ran on a 64K machine? > .... Note, the Sun server in question implements ALL of the X11 R3 server functionality IN ADDITION to NeWS Postscript script download support. While Sun(y guys) claim the NeWS imaging model far superior to that of X11, somebody has to pay for this superiority. In this particular case, anybody ho wants to use Sun server for X11 only, has to pay the memory penalty for the NeWS code that is in the server, no matter wheather you want to use it or not. .... Could Sun give you an option of running X11-only server ? Maybe. But then you wan't have an access to their (much better) imaging model. So, in 1999, when X11 finally goes broke and the entire world runs NeWS, you probbably WILL need your 128 Meg to just edit files. -- ############################################################################### Martin Brunecky, Auto-trol Technology Corporation, 12500 North Washington Street, Denver, CO-80241-2404 (303) 252-2499 ncar!ico!auto-trol!marbru