Re: X Windows

[lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)]

In article <1u0gs9INNqja@gap.caltech.edu> nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates) writes:
:In article <1993May26.042343.7434@fawlty.towers.oz.au> neville@fawlty.towers.oz.au (Neville Smith) writes:
:>BTW Has anyone mucked around with the idea of putting X Windows
:>on the GS?

:>
:object code); X11R5 is much bigger, taking up 27 MEGS compiled, as a du on
:my University's X11R5 partition just told me. If you can find someone with
:a spare 200 Megs or so to hold the various source stuff, individuals will
:need somewhere near 20-40 Megs free just to run a partially stripped-down
:version of X. Granted, the 27 Megs includes a bit of fonts and libraries,

Two different arguments here.  Granted, 100+ meg is going to be needed
if you are going to try to have EVERYTHING in X11R5 uncompressed and
compiled.  But frankly, I doubt anyone needs 20 window managers,
etc.  Instead, if one had some way to get tcp/ip working on the IIgs
and then got Xlib, Xt, and Xaw then one could get a few clients
(xterm, etc) and the server running locally.  Then run other things
remotely if you had to have them.

The 640 wide res isn't bad - some of the smaller screen Suns, xterminals
etc have that type of limit.  But 200 dot down - get serious... You
won't have much area left after borders, scrollbars, titlebars, etc. are
added.
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