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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> 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 just signed up at linuxquestions.org (having forgotten my old password) 
and entered a short description of BL3 as the first and ONLY response to 
the above item in Member Success Stories from 2003.  A lot of people had 
read this but no replies.  I hope this draws a horde of people trying to 
use their 4MB laptops for X terminals.

> > 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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