Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

From: Alan Shutko (ats_at_acm.org)
Date: 09/02/03

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    Neal Lippman <nl@lippman.org> writes:

    > This does still beg the question of how Win95/98/Me/NT, etc, managed to
    > provide a reasonable "desktop" when KDE/Gnome could not, however.

    I don't think either KDE or Gnome tries too hard at optimizing for
    older machines. 

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