> >machine running X, sorta Like an Xterminal. I realise that ELKS is not at a s
> >tage where
> >this can be done, however I'd like to know if it will eventually arrive at th
> >at point?
> >Sorry if this is Off topic, or just a little insane.
>
> I seriously doubt it will ever happen.
>
> 1. Not enough CPU power
> 2. Not enough memory space
> 3. Goto 1
>
> You can however run them as telnet or serial terminals.
>
> About the lowest platform I would consider X on is a 386-DX-25 or so
> with at least 16 MB of memory running a tiny mono X server or something
> like that.
I have seen X Run on a 386DX/33 w/ 8mb RAM and it was acceptable. No
speed demon, but certianly useable.
I could see an XT/286 possibly running X, if the server, even, were
running on another machine. This would require some sort of networked X
server... Where EVERYTHING is kept in RAM on a BigLinux box, and ONLY the
info being displayed to the screen is transmitted over the network to an
ELKS machine. The ELKS machine would be a truely dumb X Terminal--not
keeping any fonts, window parameters, etc, in memory at all. Display only
what it's given over the network.
Now if anything like this would ever be writtin, I have no idea... I won't
be the one to do it... but I could see that sort of model working on the
low-low-low-end machines. Maybe someone will care enough to do it. :-)
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