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From: jwohl@csws1.ic.sunysb.edu (Jeremy Wohl)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: X-Server for OS/2 Presentation Manager?
Keywords: X-server, OS/2, PM
Message-ID: <1991Feb22.175904.26533@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Date: 22 Feb 91 17:59:04 GMT
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In article <1991Feb21.135047.24249@unipalm.uucp> leo@unipalm.uucp (E.J. Leoni-Smith) writes:
>harry@gem.stack.urc.tue.nl (Harry Stox) writes:
>
>>Does anyone know of the existence of X-server products running under OS/2
>>(preferably PM)?
>
>>Thanks in advance for your hints,
>>Harry.
>
>Being commercially interested, I did the tour at Interop and other shows for 
>the last year.
>
>One (1) guy at IBM is working on it.....He appears to be the only one in the
>whole wide world.
>
>Some of our suppliers said that they could do a (non PM) port in about
>6-8 man weeks, if someone else would foot the bill.
>
>
>PM was seen as a man year project.

I disagree.  I started porting X in my spare time until I became too busy.
After a couple weeks of hacking, the only problem was the pervasive
assumption about 32-bit ints.  It affects the code in strange ways.  Other
than that, threads handle server requests real well, pixmaps map nicely
to PM bitmaps, and there were just a few anomilies in TCP/IP support
programs for OS/2 and that in the code.  BTW, this was assuming an 8-bit,
psuedocolor display (and I still don't have 8-bit color drivers for my
ATI. arghh..).  Six months tops (and this is spare time work).  Note,
though, that this is non-intelligent use of graphics calls, just default
use of bitmaps in the standard server code.  Intelligent use is another
few months.  I might begin again in a couple of months.  Isn't X11R5 due
soon?

-- 
Jeremy Wohl / wohl@max.physics.sunysb.edu / jwohl@csserv1.ic.sunysb.edu