I guess it is due to X being old, bloated and going via TCP/IP even locally or what it was...
I had dinner once with Jim Gettys, who pointed out that they developed X11 for machines with a handful of megahertz and two megabytes of RAM. He had it running on his iPaq. I've personally had more trouble with (what appears to be) one application holding the single GDI lock on Windows 2000 while waiting for network data than I have with X applications. I also miss virtual workspaces on Windows, though I have found a decent free pager with edge flipping.

In reply to Re: Re: Perl hacker’s tools of trade or hardware of choice.. by chromatic
in thread Perl hacker’s tools of trade or hardware of choice.. by vladb

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