craig@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Craig Hubley) (06/29/90)
This has no doubt been asked before, but where can I buy Dale Luck's
Xwindows for the Amiga, and what are its hardware/software requirements ?
Can I run it on a 1000 ? Price would help!
What are my options for running X over a slow line, say a Telebit ?
Are there any distributed applications that run partially on a Unix box,
partially on an Amiga, so that the X client stays close to the X server
and avoids some of the bandwidth problems ? I know this has been done
for some other X emulators.
Regards,
Craig Hubley
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craig@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu mnetor!utgpu!craig@uunet.UU.NETstelmack@sunrise.ec.usf.edu (Gregory Stelmack) (06/30/90)
A little bit ago, someone asked about X for the Amiga. I tried EMail, but it bounced. As others may be interested, I'll post here. I have an announcement for an X11R3 system for the Amiga published by GfxBase. Info listed in the announcement: Contact Person: Dale Luck Address: 1881 Ellwell Dr., Milpitas, CA 95035 USENET: boing!dale Anyone out there know anything else about this product? -- Greg Stelmack -- Email: stelmack@sol.csee.usf.edu or stelmack@sunrise.ec.usf.edu -- USmail: USF Box 1510, Tampa, FL 33620-1510 -- Amiga: the only way to compute!
lord_zar@ucrmath.ucr.edu (wayne wallace) (07/02/90)
Here's what Dale told me about it..... From: dale@cbmvax (Dale Luck - Amiga) Message-Id: <9006150656.AA24226@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com> To: lord_zar@ucrmath.ucr.edu Subject: Re: Amiga -- Where is X-Windows for it? Newsgroups: comp.windows.x In-Reply-To: <7063@ucrmath.ucr.edu> Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Cc: Status: RO In article <7063@ucrmath.ucr.edu> you write: >Like the title says, where? > >I know it exists. People have seen it running at TI booths at CES/COMDEX >/whatever recently. > >Any info ???? > The version of X11 for the Amiga/AmigaDos does not support the 34010 plug in card yet. Here is some email literature. If you want more spec sheet type stuff please email back an address. Thanks Dale What follows is the readme file for Release 3.1 of X for the Amiga Upgrade price from 3.0 to 3.1 is $50 New prices in effect: X11 for Amiga $395 X11 + 3b Boing! optical mouse $485 AIP2000 ethernet package: $795 (down from 899) X11+mouse+ethernet: $1185 (down from 1299) ******The main feature of this release is support of TSSnet/DECnet************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Large rework of the distribution disks. The release now consists of 8 floppy disks. The primary changes are: All MIT R4 fonts are included (3 packed disks of them) A new X.demos disk created for the miscellaneous demos that aren't really necessary for X11 system A new disk for the pbm utilities. The rest of the disks are about the same. There have been several other changes, bug fixes, etc. from 3.0 to 3.1 o R4 fonts are standard o More pbm (portable bitmap) utilities included o fixed bug in ifftopbm o fixed bug in screen saver. o Nasty GURU bugs in the original MIT arc code patched over. o Better checking for stack overflow for some operations that required lots of stack. o new demos: xeyes and maze added to release o Updated the following to R4: . xdpyinfo . xkill . xlsfonts . xlswins . xmag . xsetroot . xwd . xwud o R4 bitmaps are standard o A new installation script install.small to leave out the 100dpi fonts and the demos. (saves 5 mbytes) New Xamiga command line options: -tcpip request tcpip connections. -decnet request decnet connections. -productivity 640x480 NONinterlaced screen. Requires ECS chips and AmigaDos V1.4 software The tcpip is provided by the Ameristar 3.0 software. the decnet is provided by Syndesis. Syndesis' DECnet supports both ethernet and serial connections. Runs reliably up to 9600 baud with standard 68000 based amiga. Higher speeds if a faster processor is used. Complete installation requires 11mbytes mass storage. (5 mbytes of fonts) Availability. May 1 ( or maybe sooner ) xbench results All servers are 1 bitplane monochrome system Release line fill blt text arc cmplx xstones ------------------------------------------------------------------- GVP30-30 lcl R3 24086 11846 18927 37812 49334 24444 21588 a2500/30 lcl R3 19500 10407 18001 34375 37789 20849 18919 a2500 lcl R3 12228 8483 15872 26812 16960 14379 14145 a2500 lcl R2 10802 8278 14162 26125 ***** 14052 13653 a2000 lcl R3 5093 4779 11799 11000 8355 6732 6938 a2000 ether R3 4785 4556 11624 10937 8078 5522 6597 a2000 lcl R2 4373 4311 9310 10000 ***** 6078 6295 a2000 ether R2 4035 3956 7865 9739 ***** 3529 5531 Future developments: Color X11 still in beta testing. Shipdate moved to 1990 Xlib/Toolkits in alpha testing. Several developers are porting their X programs to the Amiga. Dale Luck GfxBase 1881 Ellwell Dr Milpitas, Ca. 95035 (408)-262-1469 boing!dale [text ends] Wayne -- * // Only /\ |Lord Zar,Commander Of All He Surveys|Stay Alert! Trust * *\\ // /--\MIGA |(and hater of spaces near commas.) |No One! Keep--AHHHH* * \X/ Internet: lord_zar@ucrmath.ucr.edu QuantumLink & Portal: Lord_Zar * * "NOT THE ALLUDIUM Q36 EXPLOSIVE SPACE MODULATOR!" "Yes!" - Wayne and Martin *