Well, the anecdotes are kind of real, and vast in numbers. I suspect many readers here never used X on a 90s PC or workstation, so they could be forgiven for not realizing it was up to the task on hardware that is now pitiful.
Another example I like is the Nokia N900, which ran X on a phone no less, phone hardware from 2009, and it was pretty good there.
Part of the problem is surely software bloat over time on higher parts of the stack, rather than X itself. You couldn't get the 486 in the comment above to run recent gnome or a recent browser. But you could run software of the era well.
Another example I like is the Nokia N900, which ran X on a phone no less, phone hardware from 2009, and it was pretty good there.
Part of the problem is surely software bloat over time on higher parts of the stack, rather than X itself. You couldn't get the 486 in the comment above to run recent gnome or a recent browser. But you could run software of the era well.