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- From: grant@bluemoon.rn.com (Grant DeLorean)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: Dell SVR4 (and Dell hardware)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.032421.22615@bluemoon.rn.com>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 03:24:21 GMT
- References: <1992Aug6.154713@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov> <MISAWA.92Aug6184108@physics16.berkeley.edu> <1992Aug13.151411.17946@crd.ge.com>
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- davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) writes:
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- > You probably would want 16MB on either machine. The Dell would run in
- >8MB, but you might want to compile without X running to save memory.
- >Note that while the Sun is really slow at scrolling with or without X,
- >the hardware text mode of Dell (or any PC based unix) is much nicer for
- >doing some things which involve lots of text.
-
- The SPARC doesn't really have a "text mode", the console stuff is
- bitmapped fonts and run from slow ROM so it prints slow. Start up
- any of the intended environments (OpenWindows, X11, or even the one
- that gives one text window and nothing else) so the frame buffer
- can kick in and little can touch the Sun (not in the price range
- anyway).
-
- Betcha couldn't guess what I am now running (SPARC 2)... :-} Want
- to buy some ISC UNIX?
- --
- \ Grant DeLorean - IHMSA & NRA Life Member - (grant@bluemoon.rn.com) /
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