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- From: rrezaian@austral.chi.il.us (Russell Rezaian)
- Subject: Re: ?? Has anyone ported X to 3B1 ??
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.211941.5897@austral.chi.il.us>
- Organization: D.O.C. Data Processing Systems
- References: <1993Jan14.152624.7026@ncsu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:19:41 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan14.152624.7026@ncsu.edu> ssa@unity.ncsu.edu (S. Alavi) writes:
- > Is it possible to port X11R4/5 to 3B1? if so what are the
- > requirements for a reasonable system (Hard Disk size, Memory etc)
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- While I don't think anyone has bothered to port a server to the 3B1, and
- while I doubt anyone ever will port a server to the 3B1, I believe that
- people have ported clients to the 3B1, and I see no reason why one
- couldn't do this again.
-
- You'd probably be crazy to try to run X clients on a 3B1 that had less
- than the max RAM, and you'd need a good 60 to 80 megs of drive space free
- to do this. You'd also (obviously) need an Ethernet card and TCP/IP.
- Which is to say you'd need a nearly maxed machine.
-
- For R5 you might be able to trim things and just compile the libraries and
- clients you were interested in (skipping things like PEX and the PEXlib
- (for R5 later than pl20) stuff) but trying to prune the support libraries
- would be a huge pain, and not exactly a task I'd want to undertake.
-
- Good luck! I'm still looking for an ethernet board and TCP/IP for mine so
- I can talk between it and the things in my network (like Suns) that don't
- have starlan 1 boards...
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