Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 11:04:51 +0100 (BST) From: Scott Mitchell <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> To: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 486 - Pushing it for an X-Server? Message-ID: <199804271004.LAA17133@hotpoint.dcs.qmw.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <56696751@toto.iv>
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Karl Pielorz said: >Hi, > >I have a 486DX4-100 which I would like to use as a 'remote' terminal system >for my main machine (which is a dual PPro 200 running 3.0-CURRENT). > >The 486 has 16Mb of RAM and a Trident (!Chipset forgotten - but supported by >SVGA X-Server!) VESA Local bus card. > >The machine has a 1Gb IDE drive. > >Is this machine going to be fast enough for me to run as an X-Server display >for programs started on my machine machine? > >I'll probably be using Netscape mainly + a few other programs / utilities... > >I guess if the software is running on the big one, 16Mb of RAM should be >enough for the X-Server? > >Any comments? (Apart from 'buy a new machine? <G>) > >Regards, > >Karl Pielorz > It should work just fine. My main machine is a venerable DX4-100, with a little more RAM and disk space than yours. I generally wander off for a cup of coffee when I'm doing a big Java compile, but for interactive stuff I have no complaints about the performance. Can't say the same about Win95 on my P150 laptop :( As someone else said, the main bottlenecks will be the ethernet and that video card. Maybe you can pick up a cheap VLB S3 card somewhere. Scott. -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID |"If I can't have my coffee, I'm just <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> | 0x54B171B9 | like a dried up piece of roast goat" QMW College, London, UK | 0xAA775B8B | -- J. S. Bach. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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