epstein@trwacs.UUCP (Jeremy Epstein) (09/26/90)
[This is being posted for isavax!isap2!trang (Trang Tran), please respond to that address, and not to me.] We're about to develop a prototype on the Sun386i running SunOS 4.0.1. According to the prototype standard we've given, we have to use X-windows, not SunView, in order to make the code portable over a variety of hardware platforms. Has anyone used, or is anyone currently using any X products developed for the Sun 386i? If so I would be interested in finding out about the product, and any pros or cons about the product. It would also be helpful if you would include, the phone number of a sales representative for the software in case we decide to purchase a copy. Please e-mail your responses and include any other relevant information. Thanks in advance. -- Jeremy Epstein UUCP: uunet!trwacs!epstein Trusted X Research Group Internet: epstein@trwacs.fp.trw.com TRW Systems Division Voice: +1 703/876-8776 Fairfax Virginia
mlandau@bbn.com (Matthew Landau) (09/27/90)
The X11R4 sources from MIT compile and run reasonably well on the
Sun 386i. There are a number of nasty bugs in the server(*), but
you probably won't notice them unless you're doing some graphically
intensive programming.
--
Matt Landau Waiting for a flash of enlightenment
mlandau@bbn.com in all this blood and thunder
(*) The two that I'm thinking of right now are:
1. Drawing PolyLines with a CapStyle of mitre sometimes
causes the server to core dump.
2. Drawing Arcs in XOR mode with the right combinations of
GC values will cause the server to core dump.
I've been planning to report both of these to xbugs, but so far
I can't get a simple test case that causes them to appear. They
show up in the graphics portions of our user-interface toolkit,
but I obviously can't ship 100K lines of BBN's code to MIT :-)
I believe them to be bugs in the MIT server because the same
code works correctly on half a dozen OTHER servers, including
the OpenWindows server on the 386i.mlandau@bbn.com (Matthew Landau) (09/27/90)
mlandau@bbn.com (Matthew Landau) writes: > 1. Drawing PolyLines with a CapStyle of mitre sometimes > causes the server to core dump. I meant JoinStyle, of course.