I'd also love to see X on an XT or 286. I wouldn't think it'd take
much...but I suppose there is more involved than I think. I have seen
dedicated X terminals, but I don't know what exactly is in them, maybe
they have more processing power inside than a 286? Also, I believe there
is a version of DesqView/X that will give you an X terminal on a 286, I
just haven't been fortunate to find a copy.
Dan
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Ken Yap wrote:
> >hi, this is probably completely off the wall, but I'm trying to get a handful
> >l of
> >8088,8086,80286 's running enough of an OS to boot up, and connect to a Linux
> >
> >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.
>
