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From: olson@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu (Robert Olson)
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Subject: Re: X11 on NEXT
Keywords: X11 NEXT
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Date: 16 Jan 90 20:06:00 GMT
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We had a copy of that same beta test version. It did not come with the 
X libraries. I grabbed a copy of the X11R3 source and with a little trouble
(mainly in some machine dependent macros) got the libraries to build. I was
able to build all of the client code that came with the X distribution
except for the window managers (I believe there were some hacks done to 
twm, which is what was included). I was also able to build a large (~80K 
lines) visualization application with no problems other than the log2() 
function available on Suns being not available on the NeXT. I did, however,
fall off my chair when I saw that it actually worked :-). 

It seemed pretty quick, too.

Bob
Bob Olson			University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
Internet: olson@cs.uiuc.edu	UUCP: {uunet|convex|pur-ee}!uiucdcs!olson