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From: klr@hadron.UUCP (Kurt L. Reisler)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Patches for building X11R3 on DECstation 3100's
Message-ID: <863@hadron.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jul 89 04:02:13 GMT
References: <89Jul19.230955edt.30755@snow.white.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: klr@hadron.UUCP (Kurt L. Reisler)
Organization: Hadron, Inc., Fairfax, VA
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In article <89Jul19.230955edt.30755@snow.white.toronto.edu> cks@white.toronto.edu (Chris Siebenmann) writes:
>
>  We've just got some DECstation 3100s, and for various reasons I'd
>like to run X11R3 instead of DECWindows (both server and clients,
>although I'll settle for just the clients). I seem to remember patches
>to enable one to do this floating around, although I forgot to save
>them and can't seem to find them on any of the X archive sites I
>looked on.
>

We are currently using the X  that came with the UWS 2.0 distribution
on our DS3100.  No problems.  You need to remember to create ttyv0 so
that you can do a startup via /etc/ttys, but that is documented and NBD
(even if I did forget about it for a while :-)  All the DECWindow
Clients work fine, with the exception of DECardfiler.

OBTW we use the X interface, isntead of DECWindows because we can not
use DECWindows on the VS200 we are still using (too much of a
performance hit), even though it would work fine on the RISC boxes.  We
require a standard interface for our users.