Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!spool.mu.edu!agate!stanford.edu!leland.Stanford.EDU!leland.Stanford.EDU!fangchin From: fangchin@leland.Stanford.EDU (Chin Fang) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: When will X11R4 come to the RS6000 (was: How to make win mgr appear) Message-ID: <1991Jun8.034456.5237@leland.Stanford.EDU> Date: 8 Jun 91 03:44:56 GMT Article-I.D.: leland.1991Jun8.034456.5237 References: <11908@hub.ucsb.edu> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: AIR, Stanford University, CA 94305 USA Lines: 23 In article <11908@hub.ucsb.edu>, raj@pollux.geog.ucsb.edu (Richard A Johnson) writes: |> |> |> By the way, I hear also that part of the delay in getting X11R4 out is getting |> all of the IBM modifications into it. Now, I can understand that supporting |> 3D hardware, IBM's graPHIGS library, their GL library, etc. would take a while |> to do, but can we just maybe get a distribution of the basic X11R? stuff as |> soon as THAT's working and then get an update of the rest later? I would bet ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Excellent idea! |> that a LOT of people don't use the 3D stuff and simply want the standard MIT |> X11R4 (and soon R5!) distribution running on their machine! |> |> Just log me as yet another opinionated customer. Me too! The plain MIT X is just fine as long as it R>3. One more vote. Chin Fang Mechanical Engineering Department Stanford University fangchin@leland.stanford.edu