sysop@insider.zer.sub.org (06/06/91)
I've just found this in a local newsgoup... > X 11 Release 5 from Japan > > OMRON has developed "X Window Version 11 Release 5 (X11R5)," a > next-generation "X Window" system, and will start OEM-supplying it to > workstation makers worldwide within the year. X11R5 features a > multi-language processing function added to the Release 4 version that > is supported by most workstation makers. The new version, which has > been approved by the X Consortium as a standard system, makes it > unnecessary for software vendors to develop applications for each > language. (5/21/91: Nikkan Kogyo p.10) > > from: JANEWS, GMD Aussenstelle Tokio When (if ever) will this be available for Amiga Unix ? Amiga - What else ? | Garry Glendown The Insider HST/V32b +49 (0)6621-77923 // | UUCP: cbmvax!cbmger!insider!garry Fido: 2:243/43.999 // | garry@fulmin.rhoen.sub.org Garry@DGIHRZ01.BITNET \X/ | Zerberus: SYSOP@INSIDER.ZER **>>> MPoint v1.6 <<<** (C)1991 M.Aberle
rhealey@kas.helios.mn.org (Rob Healey) (06/08/91)
In article <9106042316.32.4@SYSOP> sysop@insider.zer.sub.org writes: >I've just found this in a local newsgoup... >> X 11 Release 5 from Japan >> The Janpanese are pulling your leg slightly here. X11R5 will NOT be officially available from MIT till at least mid summer, if OMICRON releases it any sooner MIT will probably be "upset" to say the least... Amiga will probably have the clients/libs as soon as someone ftp's the official release code from MIT after they release it. The server? Maybe we should settle for a good R4 server first, much more likely to happen... R5 mostly adds scalable fonts and font servers, not much user visable difference betwixed an R4 and R5 server from what I hear. -Rob
david@twg.com (David S. Herron) (06/11/91)
In article <9106042316.32.4@SYSOP> sysop@insider.zer.sub.org writes: > >I've just found this in a local newsgoup... > >> X 11 Release 5 from Japan >> >> OMRON has developed "X Window Version 11 Release 5 (X11R5)," a >> next-generation "X Window" system, and will start OEM-supplying it to >> workstation makers worldwide within the year. X11R5 features a >> multi-language processing function added to the Release 4 version that >> is supported by most workstation makers. The new version, which has >> been approved by the X Consortium as a standard system, makes it >> unnecessary for software vendors to develop applications for each >> language. (5/21/91: Nikkan Kogyo p.10) >> >> from: JANEWS, GMD Aussenstelle Tokio > >When (if ever) will this be available for Amiga Unix ? Hmm.. I suppose this is simply a premature announcement. The timeline which X Consortium people have announced for releasing X11R5 is "sometime after global warming has been achieved". People have been assuming this meant "fall '91". One of the features in R5 will be better support for foriegn languages. Which jives with the above announcement. Another feature is "drag and drop" -- meaning the ability to drag things around on the screen (selected text, icons, etc) and drop them into windows & etc. -- <- David Herron, an MMDF & WIN/MHS guy, <david@twg.com> <- <- <- "MS-DOS? Where we're going we don't need MS-DOS." --Back To The Future