dyer@spdcc.UUCP (02/17/87)
>NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! DO NOT COUNT ON X ONLY RUNNING ON 4.X MACHINES!!!!! > >We have ported X to System V Xenix/386, and intend on doing more of the >similar. If you want your application to run in all environments, follows >standard "portable code" procedures and use generic calls, or use ifdefs, etc. I'd like to know what IPC model(s) you chose for implementing X on System V Xenix/386. Do you rely on external network cards like the Excelan TCP/IP board for all the IPC? I had understood that using their on-board 'sockets' for IPC within a single machine was unusually inefficient (warning, this was gleaned from an Excelan techie at Uniforum, and not from direct experience.) Do you optimize intramachine operations using System V facilities like shared memory? Finally, my Intel 386 card is coming soon; once I get my hands on SCO's 386 Xenix, how can I then obtain X? -- Steve Dyer dyer@harvard.HARVARD.EDU dyer@spdcc.COM aka {linus,wanginst,bbnccv,harvard,ima,ihnp4}!spdcc!dyer
jdm@gssc.UUCP (02/18/87)
i appologize for the wording in my previous posting regarding GSS's X
implementation. i should have said, "we are porting," rather than,
"we have ported."
we *did* have a running demonstration running at uniform using microsoft system
v xenix/386, but this is not a released product. i cannot divulge any info on
the status of this product or any of the technical details. your best bet is
the trade rags since uniforum.
IMPORTANT: my posting was *not* intended to make any pre-mature announcements,
but rather to address the question of, "is it okay to write my X application to
never run on anything but BSD?"
the obvious answer is, "no." even though certain aspects of most any
application - especially X applications - must utilize certain OS dependent
functions, such as sockets, it is wise to isolate these as much as possible for
ifdefing in a similar function on another OS.
'nuff said.
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-- jdm
in real life: John D. Miller, Graphic Software Systems, Inc., Beaverton OR
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