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Hi,

You need more than 4MB RAM to run X Window in normal mode.

It's true with Linux but maybe not with still available OpenBSD 2.6

It's written in INSTALL.i386 from OpenBSD 2.6:

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OpenBSD/i386 2.6 runs on ISA (AT-Bus), EISA, PCI, and VL-bus systems
with 386-family processors, with or without math coprocessors.  It
does NOT support MCA systems, such as some IBM PS/2 systems.  The
minimal configuration is said to require 4M of RAM and 50M of disk space,
though we do not know of anyone running with a system quite this minimal 
today.
To install the entire system requires much more disk space, and to run X
or compile the system, more RAM is recommended.  (4M of RAM will
actually allow you to run X and/or compile, but it won't be speedy.
Note that until you have around 16M of RAM, getting more RAM is more
important than getting a faster CPU.)
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If it was true that X runs on 4MB PCs under OpenBSD 2.6, it would be great.


Chris