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From: rjc@geech.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: How to beat a NeXT
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Date: 19 Feb 91 00:11:30 GMT
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In article <1991Feb18.164538.14932@en.ecn.purdue.edu> stevew@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Steven L Wootton) writes:
>In article <1991Feb13.212430.4657@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> rjc@geech.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes:
>>In article <1991Feb13.161930.4861@cc.helsinki.fi> jalkio@cc.helsinki.fi writes:
>>>In article <1991Feb12.043247.6171@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>, rjc@mole.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes:
>>
>
>On a hypothetical mutant 500:
>
>>>> Unix                $500-800 ?
>>>
>>>PLUS the price for some Unix graphics interface - and better take the
>>>best you can find.
>>
>> XWindows is free.
>
>BWAAAHAHAHAHA... heh.  I like this.  How much is your time worth?

 'Shows how much you know, Xwindows is already being ported the the
Amiga's graphics hardware for FREE by a team at funet.fi. In fact, they
also ported GCC, GDB (I think) and are porting G++.

>>Toaster. 'Nuff said.
>
>Running X? (snicker) See above.
   Once X is ported (by the PD team) its quite easy to make it run
on the toaster assuming you did a smart port and kept all the Amiga
hardware dependent code outside in a seperate module.

  
>Steve Wootton
>stevew@ecn.purdue.edu