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From: fanj@remb6489.wpd.sgi.com (Fan Jiao)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Graphics Lib, GUI, ..., "X Lit"?
Keywords: Minix V1.5, EGA, VGA, Drivers, GUI
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Date: 12 Sep 90 20:28:51 GMT
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Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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While hearing people talking about X for Minix, it seems that
at least we need some graphics primitives to start with playing
with graphics stuff.

First of all, I think we need at least two drivers, EGA and VGA.  Also
we may consider necessary to include an "extended lib"(non ANSI) like
MicroSoft C's one.  Then we can begin talking GUI.

On the other hand, it is quite obvious that X11R4 requires too much
memory and other hw support(a decent paging).  Can we think of some
kind of "X Light" so that people can do some kind "motif" work using
Minix?  It is clear that Minix does not need to support FULL X11R4, and
a lot of things can be simplified also.
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- Fan Jiao