Re: Subject: Re: success on 386 (was: Re: Does anybody try to compile...)

[Alan Cox]

> I agree that the issue is mostly size, not speed.  What makes X large isn't
> primarily the video drivers, it is the whole framework (server, xlib, toolkit,
> wm).  The core of Windows 3.1/9x is most if not all hand-written assembler
> that is very tight.  X is just much larger.

Im told the core of win9x is mostly C++ .