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From: burzio@mmlai.UUCP (Tony Burzio)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Speeding up Sun 4 X?
Summary: Large Memory Systems and X
Keywords: Megabytes, memory hog
Message-ID: <641@mmlai.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jan 90 15:42:19 GMT
References: <33410@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <9001021710.AA11011@dart.cs.byu.edu> <33480@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: Martin Marietta Labs, Baltimore, MD
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In article <33480@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster) writes:
> The consensus of the discussion is that I should buy another 8Meg of RAM
> for the Sun.  RAM for a Mac is less than $80.00/Meg. Anybody know where to
> get cheap Sun RAM?

This is all very confusing for me.  We have a discless HP330 (~1.5 MIPS)
with 4MB RAM(!) running X, and it runs HPs' X just fine.  Sure, there is 3-4
second pause between window switches while the machine swaps, but our network
is dropping 30% of large packets so this will improve (Yes, there is a 
difference between coax cables, use the wrong one and POW!).  X starts up
quite promptly and is judged useable  (we start 25 applications at startup,
what with all the xloads and such, with MOTIF-ish WM, so we are trying hard
to overload the machine :-) :-).  Buying over 16 MEG of memory is just 
impossible for us on all machines.  Why is Sun and DEC forcing humongous
memory requirements on such a simple system as X?  Marketing perhaps?
For the extra RAM money, we could buy a bunch more low-end HP workstations
for our users instead.  It's capital equipment time of year again, just musing.
Please email your thoughts and I will summarize...

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