Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!news.cs.indiana.edu!cs.widener.edu!netnews.upenn.edu!msuinfo!news From: yurkon@CYCVAX.NSCL.MSU.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications Subject: Re: X for amiga Message-ID: <1991Mar27.091253.14906@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Date: 27 Mar 91 09:10:15 GMT Sender: news@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu Organization: National Superconducting Cyclotron Lab Lines: 101 In article , tm2b+@andrew.cmu.edu (Todd L. Masco) writes... >hakimian@tek4.wsu.edu (Karl Hakimian - staff) writes: >> Could someone please send me information on X for the amiga. I looked into this >> about a year ago but I have lost the information. Thanks. > >As much as I hate to say it, I'm interested in this info too. This information is a little dated, they are up to 3.2 now, but it will give you an idea of what they have and who to contact. John p.s. I tried to mail direct but couldn't since we lost one of our gateways. What follows is the readme file for Release 3.1 of X for the Amiga Upgrade price from 3.0 to 3.1 is $50 New prices in effect: X11 for Amiga $395 X11 + 3b Boing! optical mouse $485 AIP2000 ethernet package: $795 (down from 899) X11+mouse+ethernet: $1185 (down from 1299) ******The main feature of this release is support of TSSnet/DECnet************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Large rework of the distribution disks. The release now consists of 8 floppy disks. The primary changes are: All MIT R4 fonts are included (3 packed disks of them) A new X.demos disk created for the miscellaneous demos that aren't really necessary for X11 system A new disk for the pbm utilities. The rest of the disks are about the same. There have been several other changes, bug fixes, etc. from 3.0 to 3.1 o R4 fonts are standard o More pbm (portable bitmap) utilities included o fixed bug in ifftopbm o fixed bug in screen saver. o Nasty GURU bugs in the original MIT arc code patched over. o Better checking for stack overflow for some operations that required lots of stack. o new demos: xeyes and maze added to release o Updated the following to R4: . xdpyinfo . xkill . xlsfonts . xlswins . xmag . xsetroot . xwd . xwud o R4 bitmaps are standard o A new installation script install.small to leave out the 100dpi fonts and the demos. (saves 5 mbytes) New Xamiga command line options: -tcpip request tcpip connections. -decnet request decnet connections. -productivity 640x480 NONinterlaced screen. Requires ECS chips and AmigaDos V1.4 software The tcpip is provided by the Ameristar 3.0 software. the decnet is provided by Syndesis. Syndesis' DECnet supports both ethernet and serial connections. Runs reliably up to 9600 baud with standard 68000 based amiga. Higher speeds if a faster processor is used. Complete installation requires 11mbytes mass storage. (5 mbytes of fonts) Availability. May 1 ( or maybe sooner ) xbench results All servers are 1 bitplane monochrome system Release line fill blt text arc cmplx xstones ------------------------------------------------------------------- GVP30-30 lcl R3 24086 11846 18927 37812 49334 24444 21588 a2500/30 lcl R3 19500 10407 18001 34375 37789 20849 18919 a2500 lcl R3 12228 8483 15872 26812 16960 14379 14145 a2500 lcl R2 10802 8278 14162 26125 ***** 14052 13653 a2000 lcl R3 5093 4779 11799 11000 8355 6732 6938 a2000 ether R3 4785 4556 11624 10937 8078 5522 6597 a2000 lcl R2 4373 4311 9310 10000 ***** 6078 6295 a2000 ether R2 4035 3956 7865 9739 ***** 3529 5531 Future developments: Color X11 still in beta testing. Shipdate moved to 1990 Xlib/Toolkits in alpha testing. Several developers are porting their X programs to the Amiga. Dale Luck GfxBase 1881 Ellwell Dr Milpitas, Ca. 95035 (408)-262-1469 boing!dale