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From: bauer@loligo.cc.fsu.edu (Jeff Bauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech,comp.windows.x,comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Request for testers for Color X11 for Amiga
Message-ID: <777@loligo.cc.fsu.edu>
Date: 13 Jun 89 20:50:27 GMT
References: <788@boing.UUCP> <566@bnr-fos.UUCP>
Reply-To: bauer@loligo.cc.fsu.edu (Jeff Bauer)
Organization: Florida State University Computing Center
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In article <566@bnr-fos.UUCP> protcoop@bnr-public.UUCP (Joel Avery) writes:
>
>I hope that X11 does not represent the future of the Amiga windowing
>environment ... please Mr. Luck, tell me it is not so.  3 meg of
>memory needed !?  7 meg of mass storage!? ...

I'm interested in knowing the speed of the server code -- how much of the
Amiga graphics library calls did you use?  You should be able to optimize the
server code to make a VERY fast X server, subjective to, say, the color sun3
server.  Also, I hope you say that you really DON'T need the ethernet connection,
unless, of course, you need it for the socket library and network access.
I'd just like to build & install the standard X libraries & include files so
I can build the applications right out of the src tree and have them run.
The 3 meg limit looks real, assuming similiar code densities between a sun3 & amiga --
while the working set of the X server and one xterm is on the order of 500K,
the entire memory space of both binaries is around 2,656K for X11R3...
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Jeff Bauer					bauer@loligo.cc.fsu.edu
Control Data Corporation			(904) 644-2591 ext. 113