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Re: ibm-xt used as Xwindow terminal?

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From: Charlie Sauer
Date: Wed, 02 May 1990 11:12
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In article <1045@applix.UUCP> jim@applix.UUCP (Jim Morton [ext 237]) writes:
>                                  But seriously, all the DOS-based
>solutions for X servers that I have used are worthless on less
>than a 386-20 with 2 megs of extended memory. 

We use 12MHz 286's and 16MHz 386SX's for X servers, and they work pretty well,
so I disagree about requiring a 20MHz DX.  2MB of memory is probably the right
figure, though, and a 4.77MHz 8088 (real XT) is hard to fathom for this 
purpose.

Of course, this is getting fairly far afield from this group...
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From: sauer@dell.dell.com (Charlie Sauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: ibm-xt used as Xwindow terminal?
Summary: 286's and 386SX's are sufficient
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Date: 2 May 90 11:12:39 GMT
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