[ben7799]

A PC in 1987 didn't run X11 either though.

You needed something way more expensive to run X11 before 1990.

[aidenn0]

Yes and no.

Since we are talking about software written today, not just software available in 1987, X386 (which came out with X11R5 in 1991) was more than capable of running on a 386-class machine from 1987. Granted, a 386 class machine with 1MB of ram and a hard-disk would have been pushing $10k in 1987 (~$27k in 2024 dollars), so it wasn't a cheap machine.

[LeFantome]

Desqview/X ran on a 386 I think.

https://lunduke.substack.com/p/desqviewx-the-forgotten-mid-1...

[ChrisRR]

I wonder how big the binary would be on a 1987 Amiga 500 would be then