lenny@icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano) (02/15/90)
In article <15523@cs.yale.edu> yarvin-norman@CS.YALE.EDU (norman yarvin) writes: |>In article <1089@icus.islp.ny.us> lenny@icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano) writes: |>> Discussions about porting X-windows to the UNIX-pc can be |>> summarized in one sentence, "X windows can be ported to the |>> UNIX-pc, but we need someone to write it." Nobody at the BOF |>> volunteered to port X, but the MGR demonstration did spark |>> some additional enthusiasm about doing it. |> |>On a Sun, the X11R3 server takes 500K for the code segment and over a |>megabyte total. On the Unix PC, less storage would be required for window |>data (because of the smaller screen), but the server alone would still take |>up a substantial percentage of the memory. The X clients together generally |>take more memory than the server. |> [...] I probably not the correct person to comment on this, but doesn't X11 have quite a bit of networking code in it to handle X windows over a network medium. Since the UNIX pc doesn't have any "great" network, other than STARLAN, wouldn't it be wise to remove this from the X server? Could this be done to keep the X applications and server down in size? I still don't know if this will make it feasible for the UNIX pc. -Lenny -- | Lenny Tropiano ICUS Software Systems lenny@icus.islp.ny.us | | {ames,pacbell,decuac,hombre,sbcs,attctc}!icus!lenny attmail!icus!lenny | +------- ICUS Software Systems -- PO Box 1; Islip Terrace, NY 11752 -------+