OK, so this begs the question: what is speed like? Win4Lin under X under
Linux. Wow. Very cool.
j-----k -----
On Thursday 14 June 2001 01:19, you wrote:
> Ah well - to reply to my own posts!
> I asked
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, robert w hall
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>
> >Previous versions of win4lin have run fine on my DX4-100 laptop, and the
> >current FAQ 'will win4lin work on a 486' reflects this position.
> >
> >Before I contemplate moving to v 3.0 on to this old but still useful box
> >can I check that it should still work on a 486.
>
> Well
> The following restricted tests still seem OK
>
> Elpack (a UK Election database with 80,000 entries) under dos
>
> Word 7a (aka Word-95) under win95 original
>
> both these tests on an IBM 755ce - DX4-100 with 24Mb RAM - running slack
> 4.0 with kernel 2.2.13
>
> (Bet you'ld never manage _that_ with VmWare!)
>
> >And can I request that we be given _explicit_ warning if the modules
> >were to come _compiled_ for pentium cpu only.
> >
> >
> >
> >Bob
> >
> > I say this with feeling having just installed the latest version of
> >MI/X (v3.0.1, which is X11R6 based at last) on my wife's DX4-75 only to
> >have it lob out in 'invalid instruction', and be told by MicroImages
> >it's now compiled for a pentium only - this seems a peculiarly silly
> >decision - using a legacy box as a remote X-terminal must be pretty
> >common, and the change in speed in moving to pentium-only code barely
> >worthwhile.
>
> This seems to have got through to MicroImages! - they tell me MI/X 3.0.2
> _will_ again run on a 486. This is pleasing because MI/X 3.0.1 (run on a
> 686) will now remotely run win4lin without falling over (unlike MI/X 2),
> although some of the graphics imaging is a little flaky.
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