sam@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (Your Friend Sam Moore) (08/25/88)
Is there a port of X.11 for the Amiga? If so, where can I get it. Sam Moore sam@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu
mike@shogun.cc.umich.edu (Michael Nowak) (08/28/88)
In article <2123@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> sam@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (Your Friend Sam Moore) writes: > > >Is there a port of X.11 for the Amiga? If so, where can I get it. > >Sam Moore >sam@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu Yes, Dale Luck has both servers and clients running on Amigas. He was proudly showing it at Xhibition '88 in Cambridge, MA last week. It was running on Amiga 500s and 2000s with Ameristar Ethernet boards (to access clients on a Sun next door). It also ran with a flickerFixer and the Hedley monitor (on sepearate machines). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ In Real Life: Michael Nowak Workstation Consultant U of M Computing Center User Services Via Internet: mike@ninja.cc.umich.edu Via UUCP: uunet!umix!ninja.cc.umich.edu!mike Working for but in no way representing the University of Michigan. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
phil@titan.rice.edu (William LeFebvre) (08/29/88)
In article <2123@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> sam@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (Your Friend Sam Moore) writes: > >Is there a port of X.11 for the Amiga? If so, where can I get it. A friend of mine recently visited the "X-hibitions '88" trade show. He saw a preliminary version of X-11 for the Amiga, written by GfxBase (a company started by Dale Luck, who was apparently the person showing all this stuff at the show). This is all second-hand information. The GfxBase X-11 setup has a server and a small number of clients. The server currently only supports the monochrome model, but it supports the standard Amiga display as well as the Hedley monitor. One of the 2000's had only one floppy drive and ran X-11 fine, once the fonts were loaded into RAM:. Each X machine had an Ameristar Ethernet board in it and programs on different machines can communicate via the Ethernet (no plans have been made to support serial communication). Programs on the same machine use Exec's message-passing primitives. The piece of information that really impressed me was that it was designed to co-exist peacefully with the Workbench and Intuition. X runs on its own screen and can run at the same time as the Workbench. Thus you can hop back and forth between them. In fact, you can have several different X screens running simultaneously, each of which contains its own windows and is handled by its own window manager. Standard screen scrolling still works. I'd like to see a Mac version of X do that! Amiga X-11 version 1.0 is just now entering beta test. Dale has not yet ported the X library to any native Amiga C compiler; he uses the Greenhills cross compiler on a Sun. Commercial release is planned for early next year, and should be in the prince range $200 to $300. Hope I didn't steal anyone's fire! William LeFebvre Department of Computer Science Rice University <phil@Rice.edu>