From owner-freebsd-small Mon Mar 27 22:57:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BBED37BD06 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 22:57:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA57502; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 23:57:41 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id XAA04258; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 23:57:23 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200003280657.XAA04258@harmony.village.org> To: Daniel Hayato Thomas Subject: Re: Small X? Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 28 Mar 2000 15:43:12 +1000." References: Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 23:57:23 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message Daniel Hayato Thomas writes: : Actualy I think it is more that the X on a disk thing has been done on : linux... The microwindows also looks cool and could easily be ported to FreeBSD. : Be warned you would normaly need at least a high end 486 and gobs of : memory to get even the simplest implementations of X working Gobs here is relative. I was quite happy with my 486 DX-2 66 + 16 (later 20 and later 32) MB of memory + emacs. Well, happy until I went to do a make world, and then it was a 8 hours (later 12 and most recently 36 hour, but that was with NFS src and NFS obj) affair. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message