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From: liesche@byron.u.washington.edu (Jochen Liesche)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: How many MB to run XFree?
Date: 21 Jan 1993 08:26:37 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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In article <1993Jan20.092405.1272@ghost.dsi.unimi.it> colombo@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (Marco Colombo ("TheMule")) writes:
>I'd like to have XFree running on my machine ( Am386/40 with 4MB of RAM ).
>Now I'm running 386BSD and i wonder if it's possible to run XFree
>with only 4 MB if RAM.
>I've read that Linux/XFree can run with 4MB. Is that correct?
>( Please don't tell me that 8MB would be better, I know that B-) )
Yes. I run it(at 800x600x256) on a 386sx20 with 4 MB RAM and 80 MB HDD. How's that for bare minimum? Oh, the CPU does have a cache, so I guess it's so much faster...:-). The only reason I run it at 800x600 is that my card only has 512k. Sometimes it swaps a great deal, and sometimes hardly at all...it depends on the phase of the moon...