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From: abbadon@nuchat.UUCP (David Neal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: GUI Portability was  Mac <===> Amiga
Message-ID: <14460@nuchat.UUCP>
Date: 11 Sep 89 18:50:26 GMT
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In article <2982@ur-cc.UUCP> jea@cvs.rochester.edu (Joanne Albano) writes:
>...
>
>Specifically could I use it to write a graphical
>windowing program that would compile on the AMIGA as well as porting
>easily to a machine running unix X11?
>
Assuming you wrote fairly portable code (an ansi compiler on each end
like gcc would go a long way to help you there...) your code should
port fairly quickly. I understand things like font sizes and display
resolution sizes are "hard wired?"  although X11R3 apparently has
"font wildcard" support now.
>(I understand that if I have X11 running on my AMIGA, I could run
>the X11 application on the unix machine and have a GUI to my program
>on the amiga. But I would like to run the programs on either processor.)
>

My limited exposure to X has shown that to be quite true.
> Joanne Albano, Center for Visual Science     (716) 275-3055
> UUCP: {rutgers,allegra,decvax}!rochester!ur-cvsvax!jea



On a different note, it has occured to me that Commodore could 
help push the amiga if they licensed Dale's X11 technology
and included it with the amiga. I would gladly buy another 500
or 2000 tomorrow if X11/Ethernet/SLIP (or any combo thereof) were
bundled in. Of course the price would go up some, but this kind
of move seems much more doable and cheaper than new 16 channel
sound chips and 68040 machines and other fantasies. But I'm
guessing this (X11) is just as high on most people's wish lists.

It is mine. I'd use my stock A500 running X over my 3/50 any day
of the week. That's saying something since I love Sunos and that
big screen.


David Neal
abbadon@nuchat.uucp