The IBM watch is 4 meg flash, and 8 meg ram, I beleive. So while
I agree that flash is in fact the scarcest resource, it is also something
the hardware folks are telling me is about to grow greatly over the next
few years. Moore's law shows no signs of abating in the short term.
BTW: IBM ported the old XFree86 server: I'm giving them a hand
building TinyX. So they made the big, bloated X server run.
Remember that There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch: you still
have to have rendering software, whether you run X or not, you still
have to have input management software, etc. There is some useless
stuff in X (e.g. curved arcs, for example, which are so ugly as to be
useless), but not running X does not mean you get all that memory
back by any means. We could nuke wide lines/arcs in X, and get back another
100-200K bytes: I doubt many applications would notice, if any; I haven't
felt the need to date.
The real question is how much ADDITIONAL bytes of code X takes over
other approaches. I claim it is alot less than many believe, or will be
by the time we're all done.
Remember, we developed X11 on 2 megabyte VAX 11/750's.... I been there,
and done that...
- Jim
-- Jim Gettys Technology and Corporate Development Compaq Computer Corporation jg_at_pa.dec.comReceived on Tue Nov 14 2000 - 08:50:33 EST
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