waagen@cod.NOSC.MIL (Don E. Waagen) (07/28/88)
Keyw Summary: Expires: I need to know if X windows has been ported to the Silicon Graphics 4D or 3130 machines. Any help will be appreciated. Don Waagen Sender: Reply-To: waagen@cod.nosc.mil.UUCP (Don E. Waagen) Followup-To: Distribution: Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego Keywords:
jim@THRUSH.STANFORD.EDU (Jim Helman) (08/02/88)
In article <1174@cod.NOSC.MIL> waagen@cod.NOSC.MIL (Don E. Waagen) writes: >I need to know if X windows has been ported to the Silicon Graphics 4D >or 3130 machines. Any help will be appreciated. SGI's new window system on the 4D series called FourSight, supports X11, NeWS and GL, SGI's 3-D graphics library. All of the standard tools are implemented in NeWS. ico and xclock are the only X applications in the distribution. And with good reason, the X support seems to be the least well developed of the three interfaces. It is extremely slow and somewhat buggy. But SGI did manage to beat Sun to the market with a combined X/NeWS server. How slow is it? It's SOOO slow that it makes X11R2 on a color Sun-3 seem snappy, e.g. 3-5 seconds to scroll a full height xterm or gnuemacs window. Not bad for a 4D/70 rated at 10MIPS! Still a not-quite-ready-for-prime-time X/NeWS server is better than none at all.... Jim Helman (jim@thrush.stanford.edu) Department of Applied Physics Stanford University