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From: mlandau@bbn.com (Matthew Landau)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X prototype on Sun 386i
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Date: 26 Sep 90 23:43:18 GMT
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The X11R4 sources from MIT compile and run reasonably well on the
Sun 386i.  There are a number of nasty bugs in the server(*), but
you probably won't notice them unless you're doing some graphically
intensive programming.
--
 Matt Landau			Waiting for a flash of enlightenment
 mlandau@bbn.com			  in all this blood and thunder

(*) The two that I'm thinking of right now are:

      1.  Drawing PolyLines with a CapStyle of mitre sometimes 
	  causes the server to core dump.

      2.  Drawing Arcs in XOR mode with the right combinations of
	  GC values will cause the server to core dump.

    I've been planning to report both of these to xbugs, but so far
    I can't get a simple test case that causes them to appear.  They
    show up in the graphics portions of our user-interface toolkit,
    but I obviously can't ship 100K lines of BBN's code to MIT :-)
    I believe them to be bugs in the MIT server because the same
    code works correctly on half a dozen OTHER servers, including
    the OpenWindows server on the 386i.