Subject: Re: Should I use MGR or wait for X386 to VGA port?
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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 17:53:26 GMT
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In article <farrow.713546819@fido.Colorado.EDU> farrow@fido.Colorado.EDU writes:
>That says it all. I'm used to X11 at work and feel I could be much more
>productive at home with some kind of windowing (The virtual terminals are nice,
>but...).
>
>So should I go to the work of downloading and installing MGR, or just wait
>for X on my VGA monitor? Is MGR really useful, or is it just a toy?
>
MGR will let you run multiple windows on your machine.
The color version I'm using at 800x600, with four 80x25 windows,
takes ~600K. Now, how much memory does X use?
MGR does what most people do with X (ie, run multiple terminal sessions),
in a fraction of the memory. Definately useful.
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