gl8f@astsun9.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) (10/23/89)
No doubt Andy will never speak to me again, but... I'm not a Minix user yet, but I plan on it, and I'd like to have a evil windowing system to go with it. Certainly the 386 and 68000 minix versions could support a small, efficient one. Not X Windows. Has anyone considered mgr? It's small and fast. On my 4 meg 3/60, it leaves 2 megs free when I'm at the desktop. The sun3 executable is around 163k. It requires pty's and a bitmapped display to work. It has nice features, other than the speed. You talk to windows through an ordinary stream of text, so you can easily put a client on the other end of your telnet connection or whatever by just including a .h file. Try that with X ;-) The graphics commands are merely vt100-style escape sequences stuck in the text. Termap is supported in windows. And, for ST people, it doesn't do any processing in the child side of forks. I don't know if it would be easy to port to Minix. I don't know enough about Minix. But if you're looking for a project... You can ftp the current version from bellcore.com, or a slightly earlier version is in the comp.sources.unix archive. ------ Greg Lindahl gl8f@virginia.edu I'm not the NRA.