Re: X Windows

[bazyar@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Jawaid Bazyar)]

philip@labtam.labtam.oz.au (Philip Stephens) writes:

>Nathan Mates writes:

>>X11R5 is much bigger, taking up 27 MEGS compiled, as a du on my University's
>>X11R5 partition just told me.

>  On our X terminals, the final executable for X11R5 fits in less than 3
>megs...and that's including libraries, a local window manager like mwm, a
>a local xterm, and a unix kernel.
>  The fonts, however, will take up a considerable amount of space when
>loaded...

  It seems to me that an X implementation could be done much more easily
than all this: i.e., do like MacX and implement the communiction protocol
but use the IIGS window mgr/etc to deal with stuff.  The low resolution
of the IIGS is a handicap, to be sure.
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