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  • From: 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org
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  • Subject: Re: [BL] BL3 as X-terminal in 4MB RAM
  • Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 17:05:41 +1300

sindi keesan wrote:
>
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?threadid=88991
> in which someone is trying to find a use for his 486
> with 4MB RAM as an X terminal.
> Would BL3 be useful for this?

Yes. BL3 was designed to run an Xterminal in 4mb RAM.

> I recall that 3MB was not sufficient to run X, but I
> think I could run it very slowly (one program at a time)
> with 4MB.

Standalone X requires significantly more resources than
an Xterminal. The BL3 Xterminal is especially light:
it doesn't use any X libraries, it doesn't even use libc.

Cheers,
Steven

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