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From: ocker@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Wolfgang Ocker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: Porting UNIX code to OS/9-68K
Message-ID: <1128@infovax.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de>
Date: 9 Jul 89 21:09:24 GMT
References: <1625@brwa.inmos.co.uk> <1103@infovax.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> <1268@mcrware.UUCP>
Reply-To: ocker@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Wolfgang Ocker)
Organization: Inst. fuer Informatik, TU Muenchen, W. Germany
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In article <1268@mcrware.UUCP> kim@mcrware.UUCP (Kim Kempf) writes:
>In article <1103@infovax.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> ocker@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Wolfgang Ocker) writes:
>>X11.R3 runs on OSK (I have seen it with my own eyes.) A company
>>in Germany has ported it.
>True, but it's hardware assisted.  Eltec GMBH makes a co-processor that
>supports X11.R3 for OS-9.  As far as I know, the code they have does not yet
>run stand alone on OS-9 without the coprocessor board.  It's still quite a
>nice arrangement!

No, no special board is necessary. The X server runs
directly on OSK. The DDX layer is, of course, adapted for their
graphics hardware. For IPC they use self written filemanagers/
drivers.

Regards,
/// Wolfgang
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