simnet@ssc-vax.UUCP (Mark R Poulson) (10/31/89)
I'm looking for ways to develop X-Windows application software and run it on an IBM PC or compatible (possibly under the Xenix OS). My final product should also need to be portable e.g. to a SUN. Any idea or comment will be greatly appreciated. A. Hsu
satam@ecs.umass.edu (11/10/89)
Well, I am looking for that and infact I have contacted SCO people regarding the same. They have sent me some info regarding whether they support X-Windows and from which vendor etc. Also, keep me informed about the replies you get. I tried invoking the discussions on comp.unix.i386 as well on comp.unix.xenix, but with little respone. -satam satam@ecs.umass.edu
madd@world.std.com (jim frost) (11/12/89)
simnet@ssc-vax.UUCP (Mark R Poulson) writes: >I'm looking for ways to develop X-Windows application software and run it on >an IBM PC or compatible (possibly under the Xenix OS). My final product >should also need to be portable e.g. to a SUN. Any idea or comment will be >greatly appreciated. Well-written X applications are highly portable, so that shouldn't be a major problem. If you make use of UNIX-flavor-dependent functions, such as tty control, it's a little harder. This kind of thing is generally unnecessary under X. If you want to do this, I recommend using Interactive Systems Corp's 386/ix instead of Xenix. They have the best 386 X windows I've ever seen, period. ESIX's X had poor performance relative to Interactive even though they were running on exactly the same hardware. Xenix, last I heard, was still R2. Xenix also uses the flaky Microsoft compiler. Pcc isn't great but it's fairly reliable. If you want to write X applications on a 8086 or 80286 machine, good luck. There are fairly useful servers that run on those machines but no good systems to run servers and clients. jim frost software tool & die "The World" Public Access Unix for the '90s madd@std.com +1 617-739-WRLD 24hrs {3,12,24}00bps
chasm@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Charles Marslett) (11/14/89)
In article <1989Nov11.175220.25696@world.std.com>, madd@world.std.com (jim frost) writes: > simnet@ssc-vax.UUCP (Mark R Poulson) writes: > >I'm looking for ways to develop X-Windows application software and run it on > >an IBM PC or compatible (possibly under the Xenix OS). My final product > >should also need to be portable e.g. to a SUN. Any idea or comment will be > >greatly appreciated. > > Well-written X applications are highly portable, so that shouldn't be > a major problem. If you make use of UNIX-flavor-dependent functions, > such as tty control, it's a little harder. This kind of thing is > generally unnecessary under X. > > If you want to do this, I recommend using Interactive Systems Corp's > 386/ix instead of Xenix. They have the best 386 X windows I've ever > seen, period. ESIX's X had poor performance relative to Interactive > even though they were running on exactly the same hardware. Xenix, > last I heard, was still R2. Xenix also uses the flaky Microsoft > compiler. Pcc isn't great but it's fairly reliable. As a corollary, I have been trying to get support from any of the Unix vendors for 256-color X-windows drivers. None offered to provide them, but Interactive has been working diligently, and has been testing my code for me against their applications, so I am very pleased with their support for X11. On the other hand, I have tried several times to discuss what I have to do to support X11 in 8-plane mode, and I have yet to talk to the same person twice at SCO (and I haven't really tried to talk to anyone at Everex yet). In general, I think Interactive is much more committed to Xwindows than the other vendors. [And our 256-color 800x600 and 1024x768 drivers will work there, too;^)] > jim frost > software tool & die "The World" Public Access Unix for the '90s > madd@std.com +1 617-739-WRLD 24hrs {3,12,24}00bps =============================================================================== "Those who would sacrifice ** Charles Marslett liberty for security, ** STB Systems, Inc. <-- apply all std. disclaimers deserve neither." ** Wordmark Systems <-- that's just me -- Benjamin Franklin ** chasm\@attctc.dallas.tx.us -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
jimr@vpnet.UUCP (Jim Rendant) (11/21/89)
It would be nice to see thw Xwindow system for xenix. MIT has 90 meg of source and when it is compiled it is only 70 meg. Ram is no problem if you have 9+ meg of ram. It really would be nice to see a uniform graphics interface through out the unix world.