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> > One should use a toolkit which runs under both X and curses.
> 
> Memory is cheap.  So is disk space...

Yeah right.  16MB of memory is $700, and 1 Gig of disk is around $1500
for my laptop.  I can buy a fully loaded desktop Pentium for the cost of
those two parts alone.  A laptop that runs X nicely is gonna cost you
about $5k, which is more than most can spend.  A laptop that can run
FreeBSD nicely will set you back about $2.5K, about half.

X is *not* an option for many laptop owners, and judging for the
responses I've seen recently laptop computing is becoming very popular
(and common).


Nate