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From: cohesive!mercury!pop@sun.com (Steve Tufty)
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Subject: Re: Suitable Sparcstation 1 for X
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:>We are currently evaluating workstations, one of which is a Sparcstation
:>1.  Eventually we may want to run X windows on the machine and we are
:>concerned about a suitable configuration of hardware.
:
:I got several replies (about 7 or 8). The general (but not universal)
:feeling seems to be that 8 Mbytes of memory is the bare minimum. Most
:people seemed to think that 12 or 16 was better. A Sun rep. here in NYC
:said that the unofficial policy is that if you want run X, you need to
:have 16 Mbytes.

I was wondering what the recommended memory minimums would be for the
client and the server, providing that these processes are on different
machines.  My guess is that the client is the cpu hog.  Comments anyone?

Steve Tufty    (..!sun!cohesive!mercury!pop)