yt@TOROS.EDRC.CMU.EDU (Yin-Cheng Tsai) (06/07/89)
Fortunately, NeXT hasn't been forgotten. Athena has sent their people to
the headquarters of NeXT to help them work out the X server. It is really a
great news for all the users in X world. Steven Job didn't reject such
sincere cooperation from MIT. We still expect that the people in the computer
field can give up the power struggle and work out the most convenient
environment together for the next generation as well as ourselves.
-- yin-cheng yt@toros.edrc.cmu.edu
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We (project Athena) sent 3 people to NeXT last week to work on this, and
they came back with an X server. Right now it's just a hacked up version
of the mfb code in the sample server that comes with the release. Now it
has to go through testing and optimization. I don't know if this is a
matter of days, weeks, or months.
X runs inside a single DPS window, and uses the backing store of the window
to get at the bits on the screen (NeXT says this will work, though it is
not guaranteed by any documentation).
--John Carr (jfc@athena.mit.edu)