[comp.sys.amiga] Amiga XWindows

chrise@hubcap.clemson.edu (Chris Everhart) (09/04/90)

Can somebody tell me where I can get XWindows for my Amiga?  I would prefer
something of the public domain persuasion.


Chris

fsb@stsim.ocs.com (Steve Brailsford) (09/06/90)

I've seen two incarnations of X on the Amiga at SigGraph.
One is X Window on the A3000 under UNIX.  Of course this hasn't been
officially released yet, and I have no idea when it will be.
The other is a server for X, I believe, by Dave somebody at GFXBase.
I think it makes the Amiga a X server so you can connect it to a machine
on a network who can run X.  As far as going to public domain route, I
would say, it's not worth your time and effort at least until UNIX comes
out for the Amiga.  The X source can be had from MIT, but it's very
UNIX.  I compiled it and got it to run on our SYSV machine here at work
but the Amiga would be a major port of several megabytes worth of files.
You should be able to find ads for the GFXBase stuff in some Amiga
magazine to give you a number to call for more info.  Hope this helps.

	Steve Brailsford   >>> uunet!oscmd!stsim!fsb

joseph@valnet.UUCP (Joseph P. Hillenburg) (09/07/90)

fsb@stsim.ocs.com (Steve Brailsford) writes:

> The other is a server for X, I believe, by Dave somebody at GFXBase.

The mans name is Dale Luck, and he was on the original Amiga design team.
He is still very close to CBM, but I don't know by howmuch.

> 	Steve Brailsford   >>> uunet!oscmd!stsim!fsb


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