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From: moss@cs.sc.edu (James LewisMoss)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Extremely low memory system
Date: 17 Sep 1995 23:11:06 GMT
Organization: University of South Carolina - Columbia - Computer Science
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michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon) writes:
>In article <43ft9f$50t@news.iastate.edu> rhawkins@iastate.edu (Rick Hawkins) writes:
> We're about to experiment with turning old machines that are replaced
> into xterminals. The current guess is to install linux & xfree86 o
> them; i don't think we have anything short of 4M386's (acutally, 486's
> may fall out for this use).
> The only duty of such a thing would be to serve as an xhost over telnet
> through the univeristy network (which isn't overloaded).
> Are we doomed? is this enough? Will paginging do us in?
>In a word: miserable. As in, I believe the performance would be
>miserable and nobody would have any desire to do real work on them.
I don't know. If you never run anything except the X server and a couple
of neccesary daemons on the machines, ie everything is run remotely
and only displayed on the 386s and if you made sure to recompile the
Xserver with only the neccesary options (actually don't know how much
this could save). Then it might be workable. Still not pretty.
jim
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