emanuel@cernvax.UUCP (emanuel machado) (06/07/89)
Hi, Though the subject line is fairly explicit, let me verbalize it once more: Is there any implementation of MIT's X Window system for XENIX/286 (say release 2.2.3)? And if so, how can one get it? And what's its statute (comercial, pd, shareware, etc...)? Thanks in advance, Emanuel Machado -- Emanuel T.M. Machado, CERN | "Excelence is not | UUCP: ,_ _ | an act, it's an | emanuel@cernvax.UUCP /_ ____ _ __ , , _ |/ | habit." | BITNET: /_ / / / /_ < / / /_/ <'_ /_ | Unknown | emanuel@cernvax.cern.ch
usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) (06/08/89)
in article <1011@cernvax.UUCP>, emanuel@cernvax.UUCP (emanuel machado) says:
$ Is there any implementation of MIT's X Window system for XENIX/286
$ (say release 2.2.3)? And if so, how can one get it? And what's its statute
$ (comercial, pd, shareware, etc...)?
How about for SCO XENIX 386 v2.3?
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Okemos, MI, 48864 Internet: jhl@frith.egr.msu.eduterry@eecea.eece.ksu.edu (Terry Hull) (06/08/89)
In article <3339@cps3xx.UUCP> usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) writes: >in article <1011@cernvax.UUCP>, emanuel@cernvax.UUCP (emanuel machado) says: >$ Is there any implementation of MIT's X Window system for XENIX/286 >$ (say release 2.2.3)? And if so, how can one get it? And what's its statute >$ (comercial, pd, shareware, etc...)? > >How about for SCO XENIX 386 v2.3? Since there seems to be some interest in this subject, I will share the information I have. First, there is not now, nor do I expect to see a version of the X Window System for '286 XENIX. Even if one were produced, the performance would be terrible. I think the people that are willing to spend the money on the software, the memory, and the video hardware to adequately run X will have a '386 box. As for XENIX V/386, SCO's X-Sight is supposed to ship yet THIS MONTH! YEAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! According to Dion Johnson at SCO, X-Sight will run on both SCO XENIX and SCO UNIX for the '386. Currently there are NO versions of X available for XENIX. As for other vendors, Bell Tech has said they will be supporting SCO UNIX V/386 with their X port, but don't expect support for XENIX from Bell. Last year GSS said they would be supporting XENIX, but they pulled out of that effort in favor of supporting UNIX R3.2. I do not know if they will be supporting SCO UNIX or not. As for a PD version of X for the '386, I have not heard of any. Last year, some of the foks from Project Athena said they would be willing to accept the donation of a server that would support generic '386 boxes. So here is your chance to get some of your software on the X tape from MIT! Write a server that will support a Super VGA card in a generic '386 box and donate it to MIT. Actually, since all the '386 implementations of X are commercial, writing your own server is probably the only way you will get server source code. The reasons I can think of for wanting source include 1) fixing bugs in the server, 2) supporting new video cards, and 3) improving server preformance. -- Terry Hull Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Kansas State University Work: terry@eecea.eece.ksu.edu, rutgers!ksuvax1!eecea!terry Play: tah386!terry@eecea.eece.ksu.edu, rutgers!ksuvax1!eecea!tah386!terry
henry@melmac.hss.bu.oz (Henry Mensch) (06/15/89)
terry@eecea.eece.ksu.edu (Terry Hull) wrote:
->As for a PD version of X for the '386, I have not heard of any. Last
->year, some of the foks from Project Athena said they would be willing
->to accept the donation of a server that would support generic '386
->boxes. So here is your chance to get some of your software on the X
->tape from MIT! Write a server that will support a Super VGA card in a
->generic '386 box and donate it to MIT.
i trust that terry actually spoke to someone from the X Consortium and
not Project Athena, since Project Athena doesn't do this sort of
develoment anymore (the X Consortium, being entirely and wholly
responsible for the X Window System, does).
i reckon the X Consortium (also at MIT, btw) would have more
information on such servers.
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