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From: Richard Miller <miller@hamnavoe.demon.co.uk>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] An old laptop
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 12:02:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020423110253.0F7641999B@mail.cse.psu.edu> (raw)

rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com:
> ... The
> graphics for 640x480x8 are already 300 kilobytes,
> probably 600 once you have some windows.

I ran (and did useful work on) 2nd edition Plan 9 on a 486 with 4MB.
Used 640x480x1 to save bitmap space (the screen was monochrome anyway),
but that option doesn't seem so well supported in 3rd edition.

-- Richard



             reply	other threads:[~2002-04-23 11:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-23 11:02 Richard Miller [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-04-23 12:47 bwc
2002-04-23 12:53 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-04-23 12:46 rob pike, esq.
2002-04-23 12:41 rob pike, esq.
2002-04-22 16:31 Russ Cox
2002-04-23  8:31 ` Digby Tarvin
2002-04-22  9:30 [9fans] how large is plan9 sys? Quentin
2002-04-22 16:20 ` [9fans] An old laptop Digby Tarvin
2002-04-23  9:09   ` Don
2002-04-23  9:51     ` Digby Tarvin
2002-04-23 10:18       ` Lucio De Re
2002-04-23 10:37         ` Digby Tarvin
2002-04-23 15:41           ` Lucio De Re
2002-04-24  8:59       ` Don
2002-04-23  9:50   ` Boyd Roberts

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