Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 15:23:42 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net> To: Jerry Kendall <jerry@border.com> Cc: Hellmuth Michaelis <hm@altona.hamburg.com>, Mike Eggleston <mikee@sys8.wfc.com>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xforms maintenance tools (was Re: Tcl/Tk sysinstall) Message-ID: <199602282223.PAA09082@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <96Feb28.161651est.20483-2@janus.border.com> References: <m0trrRH-00001OC@ernie.altona.hamburg.com> <96Feb28.161651est.20483-2@janus.border.com>
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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
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