Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ncrcom!cipc1!ncrlnk!ncr-mpd!kentd From: kentd@FtCollins.NCR.com (Kent.Dalton) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Minix on a ST, GUI for MINIX? Message-ID: Date: 17 Mar 91 15:42:08 GMT References: <4245.27de5556@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> Sender: uucp@ncr-mpd.FtCollins.NCR.COM Reply-To: Kent.Dalton@FtCollins.NCR.com Organization: NCR Microelectronics, Ft. Collins, CO Lines: 50 In-reply-to: rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu's message of 13 Mar 91 21:37:42 GMT >>>>> On 13 Mar 91 21:37:42 GMT, rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins) said: > Well, I've played with the Minix demo, and am interested, but I have a few > questions: > o I have a ST, and I really like my windowing environment, and I > would really hate to give it up. Has there been any discussion into porting > some sort of GUI to Minix? Disclaimer: I've had Minix for awhile but I've only started using it recently now that I have enough hard disk space to do it justice. I've followed the news group for several months now, and to my knowledge there is no GUI running under Minix-ST (or PC or Mac, etc). However, I'd like to help with or, if no one's already tried, perform all by my lonesome a port of MGR to Minix-ST. I think MGR is a great choice for a couple of reasons: - It's not a big resource hog like X (it's fairly small) - It's already been ported to the ST under MiNT, another ST environment which adds many UNIX extensions to the ST's OS. Maybe Eric Smith (author of MiNT and porter of MGR to it.) will be able to give tips/advice on how easy the task will be and how to approach it. - Source code is easily obtainable from Bellcore It seems that if a small set of graphics primitives were used, i.e. draw point, draw line, query point, etc. Users of other Minix flavors (PC, etc) would then just have to implement the 'graphics kernel' and they'd be set! Anyone have ideas in how challenging it would be to come up with a set of memory mapped graphics primitives on Minix ST?? So does anyone want to help? :^) -- /**************************************************************************/ /* Kent Dalton * EMail: Kent.Dalton@FtCollins.NCR.COM */ /* NCR Microelectronics * CIS: 72320,3306 */ /* 2001 Danfield Ct. MS470A * */ /* Fort Collins, Colorado 80525 * (303) 223-5100 X-319 */ /**************************************************************************/ Fortune: After an instrument has been assembled, extra components will be found on the bench.