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From: brando@uiucme2.me.uiuc.edu (Brando W. Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Why do you need a 387 to run X11R3?
Message-ID: <1990Mar14.200038.13723@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 14 Mar 90 20:00:38 GMT
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Reply-To: brando@uiucme2.UUCP (Brando W. Brown)
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I haven't tried X11R4 on 386/ix either partially because of i-make files and
the like. I was wondering if anyone else had. 

I have the standard distribution from MIT, but after a couple of nights
wrestling with it on my 386, I gave it up.

While on the subject of speed enhancements/degradations, I have Adaptec's
SCSI on my 386/ix with sometimes as much as a 50% increase in speed when
executing applications on different drives (not partitions). If anyone
is considering buying another disk subsystem, I would highly recommend it.
Adding a SCSI tape unit was also painless as Interactive supports the 
Archive series of SCSI tapes and it doesn't require another slot in your
386.

Another issue altogether is the fact the I have a Viper 150mb SCSI drive and
with the supplied drivers, will not perform a "no rewind after tape close"
correctly. 

Sorry to clutter an otherwise simple response with other garbage.


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