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From: lenny@icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: UNIX PC BOF Minutes, and Fixdisk 2.0
Summary: Doesn't X have a lot of networking code?
Message-ID: <1093@icus.islp.ny.us>
Date: 15 Feb 90 04:40:21 GMT
References: <1089@icus.islp.ny.us> <15523@cs.yale.edu>
Reply-To: lenny@icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano)
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In article <15523@cs.yale.edu> yarvin-norman@CS.YALE.EDU (norman yarvin) writes:
|>In article <1089@icus.islp.ny.us> lenny@icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano) 
writes:
|>>            Discussions about porting X-windows to the UNIX-pc can be
|>>       summarized  in  one  sentence, "X windows can be ported to the
|>>       UNIX-pc, but we need someone to write it."  Nobody at the  BOF
|>>       volunteered  to  port  X,  but the MGR demonstration did spark
|>>       some additional enthusiasm about doing it.
|>
|>On a Sun, the X11R3 server takes 500K for the code segment and over a
|>megabyte total.  On the Unix PC, less storage would be required for window
|>data (because of the smaller screen), but the server alone would still take
|>up a substantial percentage of the memory.  The X clients together generally
|>take more memory than the server.
|>
[...]

I probably not the correct person to comment on this, but doesn't X11 have
quite a bit of networking code in it to handle X windows over a network
medium.  Since the UNIX pc doesn't have any "great" network, other than
STARLAN, wouldn't it be wise to remove this from the X server?  Could this
be done to keep the X applications and server down in size?  I still don't
know if this will make it feasible for the UNIX pc.  

-Lenny
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