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To: JC Jaros who wrote (2209)	4/6/2000 8:45:00 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2617

Well X has been around for a long time and was developed when a meg of ram in a system was " YEAH Dream ON" Java was invented, developed in the time of msft virus (several million lines of code)of this 5 minutes. Now maybe this is why my datek realtime streamer java applet requires and average of 50% of a 200 mhz Ppro in Linux and 95% in nt4.0. Java also knows not a real number. While streamer is cranking at 50% the Xserver deamon goes from 1% to 10% But alas the would judges the elegant X by buggy xfree 4.0 and mega pig KDE and just a pig gnome. In my current 4eye watman.com I'm driving dual flat with nt4.0 200 ppro and two flats with p3 650e mandrake 6.1 xig 5.2 fvwm. I also still run dual crt 200 Pro linux 5.2 xig 5.2 fvwm. Apparently the pig cpu requirements of the datek streamer can about once a week acutally crash the Xserver even on the p3 system. Now Datek keep releasing different versions of the streamer and I don't like playing it on my main system. Now I've heard that in a couple of week the p3's may come down and I might decide to populate my second slot1 as my mandrake kernel is already smp and for a couple of hundred I can maybe up my ints&flops by 80 to 90%. Then maybe I'll have enough cpu to run java. So why do we have X, well it's not broke and has no need of fixen, xig has perfected it. Tom Watson tosiwmee