From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 6 07:39:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA22901 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 07:39:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from codie04.ops.aol.com (codie04.ops.aol.com [152.163.8.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id HAA22896 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 07:39:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ron@dc.infi.net) Message-Id: <199801061539.HAA22896@hub.freebsd.org> Received: from [152.163.101.11] by codie04.ops.aol.com with SMTP (1.38.193.5/16.2) id AA02463; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 10:38:56 -0500 X-Sender: ron@shellhost.dc.infi.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Tue, 06 Jan 1998 10:39:29 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Ron Steele Subject: Re: Diskless X Terminals In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I used to run X on my old 486/25 with 16MB all the time. I think you will find that the video board has more to do with X performance than the speed of the computer. I used a Diamond SpeedStar ET4000 (pre-accellerated) based board. I wouldn't recommend it for games, but it is quite usable for editing, even Xemacs works fine. I would go for it. At 11:41 PM 1/5/98 -0900, Ben Pepa wrote: >Hi; > >Does anyone use diskless X-Terminals? We have about 10 486/33Mhz that have >no hard drive but a single floppy. Their BIOS can't handle the newer 1.2GB >disks, so we were planning on converting them to X-Terminals (we can't find >500MB hard drives anymore). Does anyone have a 486/33Mhz running X? Is >it very slow? They will all have at least 16MB RAM and some will have 32MB >RAM. We can't do much else with them, and don't want to get the wiring >layed out if it's going to be slow.... > > >Thanks, >Ben Pepa >