Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 16:52:34 +0100 From: lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.at (marino.ladavac@siemens.at) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, k.keithley@opengroup.org Subject: Re: WINE (was: Uncle Sam, got a million bucks?) Message-ID: <199803091552.QAA13574@ws6423.gud.siemens.at>
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> > What strategy does photon offer for preserving the investment that > various enterprises have made in their existing X11 applications? Or are > you going to pull a Java on me and tell me that the apps have to be > rewritten? Isn't photon the proprietary GUI from those people who build realtime POSIX certified kernels? If so, I don't think it's X11 source compatible, and I believe you cannot use it as an X server. > I'd still be using a 486DX2/66 with 8MB if Frye's hadn't had a special > last year on a Pentium motherboard w/ 100Mhz CPU for $150. I run > Netscape 3.0x, xfig, a dozen xterms, and more. Yes, the Pentium makes it > quite a bit faster, but it was a very servicable machine before I > switched to the Pentium. > I'm still using an all-ISA 486DX33 with 16MB and an ET4000. Xemacs is faster than I can type (about 350 chars per minute) and for what I use it requires no upgrade. Once I go back to the large scale Radiance imaging, I'll need a cluster of Pentia II (floating point is a killer) but before that there is still a lot of mileage in 7 years old PC. BTW, it is not possible to install Win98 on that machine--CPU is too slow according to MS :) I guess I'm marooned in UNIX waters (the Win95 does seem very sluggish on the machine in comparison with FreeBSD/AccelX). /Marino To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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