Subject: Re: X on an LC II?
To: Paul Forgey <paulf@aphrodite.com>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 10/10/1997 13:01:55
Paul Forgey wrote:
>
> Never mind! I opened a telnet session from another machine to monitor
> the process, and I found after an un-godly amount of cpu time (> 5
> minutes), it finally comes up.
>
> I figured it was just 'sitting there', because there was no audible disk
> I/O. The ps list showed otherwise, running with the CPU time almost
> real time!
Ah, you answered yourself before I could ;-) I have heard times as long
as 20 minutes real time for X to come up on an LC class machine. I
believe that you can cut this down significantly if you have an FPU.
> Once running, however, the responsiveness is actually acceptible! Which
> is fine, becuase I plan on making the system a dedicated X terminal
> anyway.
Cool!
> Paul Forgey wrote:
> >
> > Is X supported on an LC II (is the machine fast enough is another
> > question I problably know the answer to :)?
> >
Later.
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Colin Wood cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6 Intel Corporation
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