DAVID@TECMTYVM.BITNET (David Trevino) (06/27/88)
We are in the process to evaluate X-Windows, and we are interested in running this environment on IBM RT computers. What do we need in order to run it on RT's? and, Does it exist some kind of grant to have X-Windows? We are a large university and we are interested in X-Windows as an environment for Engineering applications. Thanks in advance for your help. David Trevino CAD/CAM & Engineering Applications Manager Monterrey Institute of Technology. Monterrey Mexico E-Mail: DAVID@TECMTYVM.BITNET
rpd@CS.CMU.EDU (Richard Draves) (06/28/88)
I have X11R2 working on RTs (APA-16 and AED displays). This is running on Mach. I believe IBM has an X11 release for Acis/4.3. I don't know about AIX. Rich
grogers@uiucdcsm.cs.uiuc.edu (06/28/88)
If you are using Berkeley Unix, you should have no trouble running X.V11R1. In fact, this is part of the IBM distribution of AOS 4.3 Unix. However, the MIT X Consortium release 2 of X 11 will not even compile on the RT. I spent several days trying to get it working and finally went back to R1. Incomplete makefiles for the server and plenty of code in the toolkit that would not compile let me know that no one had ever tried to build X before distributing it. On the brighter side, I have been told (by people who know) that IBM is fixing release 2 and will ship it with future 4.3 releases. Generally there has been a new release of Unix about every 6 months, so there should be another one soon (just speculation on my part). Greg Rogers University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Computer Science 1304 W. Springfield Ave. Urbana, IL 61801 (217) 333-6174 UUCP: {pur-ee,convex,inhp4}!uiucdcs!grogers ARPA: grogers@a.cs.uiuc.edu CSNET: grogers%uiuc@csnet-relay
sauer@auschs.UUCP (Charlie Sauer) (07/03/88)
In article <8806271640.AA25383@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>, DAVID@TECMTYVM.BITNET (David Trevino) writes: > We are in the process to evaluate X-Windows, and we are interested > in running this environment on IBM RT computers. > What do we need in order to run it on RT's? and, I'm assuming the question is AIX specific, since 4.3/RT was one of the original development vehicles for X11. X10.4 is currently available for AIX/RT. X11 is scheduled to be available for AIX/RT in September. AIX 2.2.1 and appropriate hardware (e.g., bit mapped display) are prerequisites for the X11 product ("X Windows 2.1"). -- Charlie Sauer IBM AES/ESD, D18/802 uucp: ut-sally!ut-emx!ibmaus!sauer 11400 Burnet Road csnet: ibmaus!sauer@EMX.UTEXAS.EDU Austin, Texas 78758 aesnet: sauer@auschs (512) 823-3692 vnet: SAUER at AUSVM6