marvin@kelly.UUCP (Kyle Marvin) (11/29/89)
I am interested in finding any information related to changes in the Sample Server porting interfaces for R4. I've heard about the substantial gains in performance of the R4 server and am curious as to whether this has been accomplished by equally substantial changes in the ddx interfaces (specifically, those described in "Definition of the Porting Layer for the X v11 Sample Server" ala Angebranndt, Drewry, Karlton, and Newman). I'm really more interested in interface changes than changes to the ddx implementations (although I'm willing to listen to anything :-). I'm in the process of performance tuning an R3 server based upon them and don't want to go too far down any paths which won't survive through R4 :-(. Any help from server hacks with access to R4-beta would be appreciated... Please send responses directly to me and I'll summarize to the net if there's interest. Kyle Marvin Visual Information Technologies, Inc. (VITec) uunet!convex!vitsun!marvin (214) 596-5600
rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler) (11/29/89)
I am interested in finding any information related to changes in the
Sample Server porting interfaces for R4.
Sorry, this kind of information has been available to X Consortium members
for a while now, but won't be available to the general public until R4 is
released.PSPINLER%MKVAX1.DECNET@MSUS1.BITNET (Murky) (11/29/89)
Has a release date been set or hinted at for R4 ? Thanks -- Pat
rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler) (11/29/89)
>Sorry, this kind of information has been available to X Consortium members >for a while now, but won't be available to the general public until R4 is >released. From an anonymous friend of the court: While your position is technically correct, I think having stated it more proactively would have been better (it just seemed that it was slighting or demeaning to somebody who doesn't understand the nature of the Consortium). I didn't mean to slight or demean anyone. The MIT X Consortium is funded by our members. Our software distribution is enabled by that funding. Although virtually everything we produce ends up available to the public in the end (principally through our software distribution), one of the advantages of membership in the Consortium is early access to and influence over the specifications and the software. If your organization would like information about membership in the X Consortium, you can contact me (I'm the Director of the X Consortium) directly by mail or post. Bob Scheifler Laboratory for Computer Science 545 Technology Square Cambridge, MA 02139