Window Managers & Insufficient Memory...

[michael zyda]

     On the subject of window managers and their using a lot of
memory, there is another cure that SGI could consider. SGI could
give all 4D customers an extra 4MB of memory with each system
without raising the cost to the customer. Instead of shipping
systems with 8MB, SGI could send 12MB and then complaints
about the window manager being a hog could be then ignored.
By the way, wasn't this the case on the IRIS-2400 years ago?
The IRIS-2400 was shipped with 2MB originally. One of the
operating system releases caused that size system to no
longer work AND if you knew who to complain to, you got
sent an extra 2MB...

     Michael J. Zyda
     Associate Professor of Computer Science
     Naval Postgraduate School
     Code 52, Dept. of Computer Science
     Monterey, California 93943-5100
     (408) 646-2305 (work)
     E-mail: zyda at trouble.cs.nps.navy.mil