[mgerdts]

What’s not immediately obvious from this is that it was not uncommon for an installation to require about 30 floppies. Floppies of course are not 100% reliable and in my experience there’s a pretty good chance that at least one of the floppies will be corrupt. For me, this meant a trip into the campus computer lab to download and write a fresh copy of the needed disk.

When you decided that you wanted X11, you would need to follow the readme with the understanding that getting it wrong could fry your monitor.

[hulitu]

> What’s not immediately obvious from this is that it was not uncommon for an installation to require about 30 floppies

But not for 25 years.

>When you decided that you wanted X11, you would need to follow the readme with the understanding that getting it wrong could fry your monitor.

The usual disclaimer. The defaults worked.

[pjmlp]

Sure, if you were happy to have a trident card do 800x600 instead of 1024x768 like on Windows.

This after fine tuning, as it started with 640x480.

[hulitu]

But you had a bigger virtual screen, which windows couldn't do.