From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 29 02:36:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA07819 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 02:36:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA07728 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 02:36:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from papillon.lemis.com ([192.122.138.250]) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA19975; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 19:05:38 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (grog@localhost) by papillon.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.6.12) id MAA00566; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 12:19:21 +0800 (SGT) Message-ID: <19980428121920.25294@papillon.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 12:19:20 +0800 From: Greg Lehey To: Karl Pielorz , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 486 - Pushing it for an X-Server? References: <3541F5F7.843520BE@tdx.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <3541F5F7.843520BE@tdx.co.uk>; from Karl Pielorz on Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 03:40:55PM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 25 April 1998 at 15:40:55 +0100, Karl Pielorz wrote: > 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. With that combination, the CPU isn't going to be the limiting factor. You would get better performance with more memory, and a faster display board would be of advantage if you're doing heavy graphics. If I had that particular combination, I'd add another 16 MB memory, but that relates to my usage of X (many windows, mainly text). Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message