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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Motif on X386???
Message-ID: <1992Aug16.210959.17266@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
Date: 16 Aug 92 21:09:59 GMT
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In article <16kt8jINN9so@agate.berkeley.edu> randyc@ocf.berkeley.edu (Randy Yen-Pang Chou) writes:
>Anybody got motif working on X386 with 386bsd? How's the performance?
>How much memory do I need to compile it(not including the docs) ?
You have to have at least the 1.2 Motif sources, and, if you mean "how much
disk" instead of "how much memory", the answer depends on whether you want
the whole thing or just enough to do stuff with or everything but docs. This
varies from "a lot" to a "whole lot", depending. Figure 40 Meg or so for
what I consider minimal utility.
If you're really talking memory, I can't tell you without yanking memory out
until it won't recompile. Understandably, I probably wont do this.
As for performance, it normal compared to OLIT; in other words, OLIT still
sucks at drawing ovals, but is lower overhead otherwise (but I think as
a purely subjective point, Motif is prettier). The other thing to consider
is that Motif doesn't tend to permanently allocate color registers, thus
preventing you from having quite as many colors on the screen at the same
time.
Terry Lambert
terry_lambert@gateway.novell.com
terry@icarus.weber.edu
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