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From: dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Device independent library idea
Message-ID: <917@boing.UUCP>
Date: 1 Dec 90 21:15:14 GMT
References: <16390@brahms.udel.edu>
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In article <16390@brahms.udel.edu> don@brahms.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd) writes:
>
>	There's been talk for quite some time now about device-independent
>graphics libraries to allow the Amiga to once again become competitive in
>the relatively high-end graphics markets.  Apparently this is being worked
>on, and will be nice to see when it gets here.
>
It is already hear!
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>	There's been talk for quite some time now about device-independent
>graphics libraries to allow the Amiga to once again become competitive in
>the relatively high-end graphics markets.  Apparently this is being worked
>on, and will be nice to see when it gets here.

It is already here! It is called X Windows. It is not only device-indepenent
but it is also an industry standard that is supported on almost all those
other high-end workstations we get compared to. You can right now work on
code that works with a 1008x1024 16 color frame buffer on an Amiga with enough
chip memory. That same program can access a frame buffer card on any other
machine on the network that may have a full color 1kx1k display with even
more colors.

The complete MIT set of libraries ,xlib, Xt, and Anthena widgets are available
for Lattice programmers. Also nearly ready is the XView2.0 programming libraries.

We are the only nonunix platform the has those available now.

Programs developed using the X Window System are nearly 100% portable to 
other X Window compatible workstations. Most of the X applications ported
to the Amiga, compiled, linked, and ran with ZERO changes to the original
MIT C source code.

The X11 System for the Amiga now supports Commodore's tcpip (AS225)
package as well as TSSnet (DECnet) from Syndesis. The 3.2 release
uses the new SANA local domain device for local connections.

For more info please email back.
Dale Luck
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