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From: casey@gauss.llnl.gov (Casey Leedom)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Amiga 500 X server  (was: Re: X Windows on AT&T DMD's and Blits?)
Keywords: Amiga 500 X Window
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Date: 5 Dec 89 21:33:17 GMT
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| From: staatsvr@asdcds.UUCP (Vern Staats)
| 
|         "Without your Ethernet connection, Dave, 
|          I'm afraid you'll find that a bit difficult"  :-)
| 
| Seriously, I think the Amiga 500 would make a great (medium-res) X terminal,
| but the only way I can think of to get ethernet would be to use an A2000
| ethernet card in an expansion box.  The 3rd party expansion boxes shouldn't
| be anywhere near as flaky on an A500 as they are on the A1000, still I've
| yet to hear of anyone actually doing it.  If anyone has seen an Amiga 500
| running X (either over ethernet or SLIP) please drop me a line.

  (sigh) Doesn't anyone read what I post any more.  Probably not.  I
certainly don't.  In any case, here we go again:

  You can get very good X11 performance across a serial line as long as
you don't insist on running the entire X11 server on the workstation.  My
GraphOn OptiMax 200 is a proof of concept.

  I haven't written all these articles about the OptiMax 200 because I'm
being paid by GraphOn.  I wrote them because I believe that GraphOn is
the only company which has attacked the problem with the correct
solution.  If NCD, Visual and all the other X11 terminal manufacturers
would adopt this better technique I'd drop all my objections to their
products.

  I'd really like to see a standard for Remote X11 Support developed (a
remote procedure call interface to implement the dix/ddx X11 server
interface.)  I've now done all the conceptual design work for it, but I
just don't have the time to pursue it further.  If such a standard were
finished however, it would be trivial to run X11 on PC, Macintoshes,
Amigas, etc.  and get good performance over serial lines.  If you're
interested in what's been written so far, just drop me a line and I'll
send you the current draft rational and protocol outline.

Casey

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