seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan) (06/07/90)
In article <136625@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> lm@sun.UUCP (Larry McVoy) writes: >Just as a sanity check, compare to the first version of the Mac. That had >the OS (what there was of it - basically a file system) and the window >system in a 128K ROM. Your average X server is about a meg or more. On the >*same* architecture. Apples (pardon the pun 8-)) to oranges. Or, more correctly, peas to 200 lb. pumpkins, I guess. The Mac graphical interface (the stuff in ROM, basicly) doesn't have to worry about TCP/IP communication, doesn't have a split client / server model, etc. It is a single-user system, for running a single application at a time, much like MS-DOS. X, on the other hand, is this *huge* monolithic *thing* which falls down on top of an existing OS, one which was not prepared, really, to deal with something of this order. It has everything but the kitchen sink (you get that with GNU EMACS 8-)). So it's an unfair comparison. -- -----------------+ Sean Eric Fagan | "It's a pity the universe doesn't use [a] segmented seanf@sco.COM | architecture with a protected mode." uunet!sco!seanf | -- Rich Cook, _Wizard's Bane_ (408) 458-1422 | Any opinions expressed are my own, not my employers'.