Re: high-end vs. low end

kwrohrer@ce.mediaone.net
Fri, 6 Nov 1998 11:49:45 -0600 (EST)

And lo, Lenart Gabor saith unto me:
>
> On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 09:53:33AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > > > Don't forget, the point is, that linux makes a perfect Xterminal of
> > > > > a 386 with 8M ram (and should further versions do so too).
> > > >
> > > > It probably will. It might even work better :)
> > >
> > > Don't think so. I tried to make X run on 386 with 8meg and hercules,
> > > and it is very slow. It is usable, but when X it start 2 minutes or
> > > so, it is not nice. So - 386 was never nice X terminal.

The key is to use an old enough X server (complied for 386, without so
much alignment padding) and an old enough kernel (compiled likewise).
It really did used to work on a 386-40 with 4 megs, but you did need
swap space. That you can't do it any more doesn't surprise me; I doubt
XFree86 has ever been optimized for memory efficiency.

Keith

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