Ari Sadarjoen <SADARJOEN@HLERUL53.bitnet> (02/22/90)
Hello,
As a newcomer to AIX I would like to ask you, whom I consider
an expert ;-) the following questions:
What machines, other than the IBM RT/PC, does AIX run on ?
Does anyone have any experience in programming in X-Windows ?
At our department there seem to be all the manuals we need,
but sometimes too many manuals is worse than none...
So, could you advise me where to start ?
The only thing I know right know is how to start X-Windows
(% xinit), but that's just about it.
Regards,
Ari Sadarjoen.
sadarjoen@hlerul53.bitnet
simface@duticai.tudelft.nlMarkus Baertschi <MARKUS@CERNVM.bitnet> (02/23/90)
Ari, There are 4 different series of machines on which AIX is running: - PS/2's with a 386 CPU - RT's, like you are working on - RS/6000's the last week announced new IBM workstation line - 3090's and similar big IBM computers To learn X-Windows you have just to peek into the 'IBM AIX X-Windows User's Guide', this is one of the smaller manuals you'll have. To get started with programming I use the 'Xlib Programming Manual' (ISBN 0-937175-26-9). Regards Markus
PCV1584@MVS.DRAPER.COM (02/23/90)
Ari Sadarjoen asks: > What machines, other than the IBM RT/PC, does AIX run on ? I am no authority on this, but, as far as I know, AIX also runs on some flavors of PS/2 (the model 70, at least), 3090 mainframes (and some other System/370 platforms: 43xx, ?), and the just-announced RS/6000 workstations. > Does anyone have any experience in programming in X-Windows ? > At our department there seem to be all the manuals we need, > but sometimes too many manuals is worse than none... > So, could you advise me where to start ? Unfortunately, the IBM X-Windows manuals do not provide any sort of introductory tutorial. I found "Introduction to the X Window System" by Oliver Jones (Prentice-Hall, 1989) to be EXTREMELY helpful, although there are many errors in the example code fragments (refer to your reference manual for the precise syntax of the subroutine calls). Ollie Jones has taught most (if not all) of the introductory tutorials at the last several X conferences, so he is well versed in the subject. Peter Vernam vernam@draper.com Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. or 617-258-2735 555 Technology Square Cambridge, MA 02139
LEVENT MOLLAMUSTAFAOGLU <MOLLA@TRBOUN.bitnet> (02/23/90)
AIX works on the PS/2 as well. As to X-Windows, you have to define as many pty (pseudo-terminal) devices as the number of windows you want to open simultaneously. Use the devices command to add the pty devices. After this, you can use the X-Windows system by adding shell or DOS windows from the Tools menu. Best Regards, Levent Mollamustafaoglu Research Assistant, Bogazici University, Turkey
Raymond Koluvek <R02RDK@DHHDESY3.bitnet> (02/23/90)
> > Does anyone have any experience in programming in X-Windows ? > At our department there seem to be all the manuals we need, > but sometimes too many manuals is worse than none... > So, could you advise me where to start ? May you can check out the examples of X11, do cd /usr/lpp/X11 (I think it was that) you should see 'samples' directory, look around in there Regards, Ray
SURF450@KUB.NL (02/24/90)
ask michiel kars alias dijk at rugr86 groningen holland -dijk@rugr86.nl bye and perhaps you can tell us about xwindows-xondos and ultrix to ibm rt aix