Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!mcnc!duke!khera From: khera@cs.duke.edu (Vivek Khera) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: X sucks (was: Re: Ware Ware Wizardjin) Message-ID: Date: 15 Apr 91 17:13:57 GMT References: <128236@uunet.UU.NET> <15785@smoke.brl.mil> <1991Apr10.194243.12882@watmath.waterloo.edu> <1991Apr14.143159.3560@alembic.acs.com> Sender: news@duke.cs.duke.edu Organization: Duke University CS Dept., Durham, NC Lines: 28 Nntp-Posting-Host: thneed.cs.duke.edu In-reply-to: csu@alembic.acs.com's message of 14 Apr 91 14:31:59 GMT In article <1991Apr14.143159.3560@alembic.acs.com> csu@alembic.acs.com (Dave Mack) writes: In article <1991Apr10.194243.12882@watmath.waterloo.edu> gamiddle@watmath.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton) writes: [stuff deleted] >workstation hardware became affordable, X seems to be the best. Of course, >that set has only one member. Not quite. Remember a very nice package that was posted to c.s.u a few years back called MGR? Steve Uhler at Bell Labs claimed that an updated version of that was going to come out eventually, but I've seen no sign of it. Pity. [Thinking back, though, I guess MGR only ran on Suns, so maybe that doesn't qualify as hardware independence.] actually, the libraries could be compiled on any machine, similar to the way the X library can. the hardware dependent routines numbered something like 6 functions. all in one file, if i recall correctly (even if it were more, it was still a small portion). i even got the MGR libraries to compile on a BBN GP-1000 parallel processor running a home-brewed version of their OS. worked like a charm drawing my graphics on my Sun 3. i'd like to see MGR updated... even though X is plenty fast on my SPARC. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vick Khera, Gradual Student/Systems Guy Department of Computer Science ARPA: khera@cs.duke.edu Duke University UUCP: ...!mcnc!duke!khera Durham, NC 27706 (919) 660-6528