[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.