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From: leo@krabat.marco.de (Matthias Pfaller)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Extremely low memory system
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Date: 20 Sep 95 09:35:36 GMT
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J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote:
> Matthias Pfaller <leo@krabat.marco.de> wrote:

> >If you are using the machines as Xterminals *only*, 4mb is enough.

> I hope your xterminals will never fall over an application attempting
> to pump way too many pixmaps into the server...

I know that you can bring the machine by down doing this, but its good
enough to run several xterms, ghostview, xtex, ...
Note that the SLC is a monochrome machine. That helps and it reduces the
temptation to run something like xv...
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