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From: leo@unipalm.uucp (E.J. Leoni-Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: X-Server for OS/2 Presentation Manager?
Keywords: X-server, OS/2, PM
Message-ID: <1991Mar4.225954.117@unipalm.uucp>
Date: 4 Mar 91 22:59:54 GMT
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jwohl@csws1.ic.sunysb.edu (Jeremy Wohl) writes:

In response to my 'Its a big job' comment Jeremy sez.


>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: X11R5 is coming very soon - we rae porting it to SUNS.

If you come up with a working X server for OS/2 - let me know. We can probably
sell it for you. We just don't think it is (and neither does any other
commercial organisation that I know) a 'good return on investment'

Having said that I know a couple of bigf multinationals that would take
a few hundred copies.......until IBM brought its own out once you had
demonstrated the market :-)