Two questions about the 3b1
John 'Fritz' Lowrey
jlowrey at skat.usc.edu
Wed May 29 03:11:59 AEST 1991
Don't count on it!
X-Windows is great if you have MIPS and RAM and disk capacity to
spare. According to a recent Unix Week artical (13 May, 1991 p55) the
minimum functional X-Windows system needs 4MIPS. We get about 1MIPS out
of the well loved 3b1. It goes on the say that a networked X-Manager needs
approximately "1/2 to 1 gigabyte of additional fileserver diskspace..." for
swapping. Call me kooky, but the 67meg 3b1 limit looks a bit puny in
comparison. To top it all off, the stated RAM requirements look to be about
16meg for X11R4.
What I suppose this all amounts to is that the 3b1 was never intended
to run X-Windows, nor was X-Windows written in anticipation of use on a 3b1.
Later...
Fritz
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