Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ocsmd!stsim!fsb
From: fsb@stsim.ocs.com (Steve Brailsford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga XWindows
Keywords: Amiga X XWindows
Message-ID: <886@stsim.ocs.com>
Date: 5 Sep 90 19:24:50 GMT
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Reply-To: fsb@stsim.ocs.com (Steve Brailsford)
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I've seen two incarnations of X on the Amiga at SigGraph.
One is X Window on the A3000 under UNIX.  Of course this hasn't been
officially released yet, and I have no idea when it will be.
The other is a server for X, I believe, by Dave somebody at GFXBase.
I think it makes the Amiga a X server so you can connect it to a machine
on a network who can run X.  As far as going to public domain route, I
would say, it's not worth your time and effort at least until UNIX comes
out for the Amiga.  The X source can be had from MIT, but it's very
UNIX.  I compiled it and got it to run on our SYSV machine here at work
but the Amiga would be a major port of several megabytes worth of files.
You should be able to find ads for the GFXBase stuff in some Amiga
magazine to give you a number to call for more info.  Hope this helps.

	Steve Brailsford   >>> uunet!oscmd!stsim!fsb