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From: ford@amix.commodore.com (Mike "Ford" Ditto)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga 3000UX, X, OpenLook, Motif, Color, A2410, Etc. (somewhat long)
Message-ID: <1399@amix.commodore.com>
Date: 16 Mar 91 00:46:28 GMT
References: <392@tcr.UUCP>
Organization: Commodore-Amiga Unix Development
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xenon@tcr.UUCP (Chris Hanson) writes:
>     1) Why Black & White XWindows?

Because we thought some people might find it useful.  It was fairly
easy to port the MIT monochome driver, and allowed us to get X running
fairly quickly for our internal development.  So, we have included it
on our last several releases, figuring that someone could make use of
it while the TIGA and multi-bitplane drivers were being developed
(essentially from scratch; MIT and AT&T don't provide those).  Now
that the TIGA driver is working quite nicely, and X11R4 is ported, the
X folks don't have much left to do besides the multi-bitplane driver.
Well, I guess there's always optimization.

					-=] Ford [=-

"The number of Unix installations	(In Real Life:  Mike Ditto)
has grown to 10, with more expected."	ford@amix.commodore.com
- The Unix Programmer's Manual,		uunet!cbmvax!ditto
  2nd Edition, June, 1972.		ford@kenobi.commodore.com