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The X attitude
I have a Unix workstation in my office, and I love it. It has a CPU that runs at 12 million instructions per second, 12 megabytes of RAM, a big swap disk, and 8 gigabytes of server space on the network. Of course, it runs the X Window System. But even with all this hardware, X Window is just “acceptable.”
I have a Mac SE next to my workstation. Even though the workstation trounces the Mac at number crunching (it’s 40 or 50 times faster), the two are neck and neck when it comes to windows and graphics. Ask both machines to draw 10,000 random line segments, and they finish about the same time.
What is going on here? Why would anyone design a system like X Window, such a pig when it comes to hardware resources? How did the designers get away with this? Why have people embraced the X Window environment?
Everything about X Window is a pig. Its disk and RAM requirements are unbelievable. For example, if I want to build a little “hello world” program, I use the Motif widget set and write 10 lines of code. The executable file for this one little program consumes over a megabyte of disk space!
