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From: jasmerb@mist.cs.orst.edu (Bryce Jasmer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: X11 on NEXT
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Date: 17 Jan 90 07:40:57 GMT
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In article <61300023@m.cs.uiuc.edu> kaplan@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
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>Well, if the demo server is the same demo server we got, you arent missing
>anything:

I disagree. I was quite happy with the demo that I saw. It ran like a 
champ considering it was not complete yet.


>1.  its in a fixed 640x640 pixel window

All you need to do is run it from a shell: XNeXT -geometry 1100x820.

>2.  it crashes when you try do to just about anything

I disagree there also. I was able to run every application included except
for xcalc. I even ran applications over the network and used XNeXT just as
the display and only had one problem that was mentioned by Paul O'Neill
and that was the fact that the prelim version didn't include a complete
font set (to my knowledge, that can be a good amount of space) and the
one application asked for a font that wasn't there. Not once did I crash
it.

>3.  there are no libraries to make new applications

Yes, but it sounds like all you have to do is grab the sources from MIT
and compile away. [See one of the previous articles for how to do this.]


>4.  on Jan 1.  it said "time's up!" and doesnt work no more.

So just set the date back on your cube. Let me check what mine is here...
ah, it is now December 12th according to my cube. No problems there.

>It was VERY VERY fast though, I'm looking forward to the real thing when/if
>it ever appears.

I wouldn't say it was "VERY VERY" fast but is was quite decent and usable.

Bryce Jasmer
jasmerb@cs.orst.edu