[comp.windows.x] X11R3 on DECstation 3100's

jg@jumbo.dec.com (Jim Gettys) (01/11/89)

I'm on the wrong coast at the moment (in the middle of moving from
Palo Alto to Cambridge); in any case, for those of you who
might have been lucky enough to get a DECstation 3100 (aka PMAX) by now (it was
announced today, Jan. 10), the R3 core distribution should compile and run
without any changes except to the Imake stuff for all core clients.  I will get
the diffs posted next week.  You will want to use our servers :-)
(there are some bugs in the DDX server code for mfb and cfb which need to
be fixed before MIT servers will run properly on it, not to mention
some driver differences from the VAX; our servers run very much faster in any 
case).  The client code is as up to date as schedule would allow, but those
of you who track bugs might want to run MIT clients. 

For those of you who don't know what a DECstation 3100 is, it is the RISC
workstation Digital introduced today based on the MIPS processor, first in
a full line of machines.  I'll let the marketeers to their job; maybe they'll
be clever enough to send something to comp.newprod sometime.... or ask
your local Digital salesman.
				Jim Gettys
				Digital Equipment Corporation
				Cambridge Research Laboratory