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> swapping heavily with less than 8MB. No kidding! My intro to X was seeing it load bare-bones on my enthusiast friend's 2M (could have been 4) 386. I think h
by ttctciyf 5y ago
> swapping heavily with less than 8MB.
No kidding! My intro to X was seeing it load bare-bones on my enthusiast friend's 2M (could have been 4) 386.
I think he brought xfontsel up or something and you could see the scanlines being drawn one at a time :)
A couple of years later, I was running fvwm2 and a very serviceable desktop at work in 8M though. (AFAIR, anyhow.)
- anthk 5y agoFVWM2 it's even lighter and faster than TWM. Test it if you don't believe me. With the wireframe mode, it's even faster on moving and resizing.
- bch 5y agoMoving and resizing wireframe boxes seems like to me like an ergonomic and technical win - it’s a bit baffling to me why it’s not the default everywhere, no matter what the compute/gfx capabilities.
- anthk 5y agoYeah, it's crazy how CWM it's crazy fast on my AMD Turion 2 but windows lag a bit upon moving/resizing them. Implementing a wireframe mode on CWM should be dumb easy and a lot of older machines would profit from that.