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From: ki@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Karsten Isakovic)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: X for the ST?
Message-ID: <3740@franc.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Date: 13 Jun 91 14:45:21 GMT
References: <1991Jun10.055941.29027@agate.berkeley.edu> <1991Jun10.190828.23016@clinet.fi>
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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In article <1991Jun10.190828.23016@clinet.fi> likos@clinet.fi (Johannis Likos) writes:
>The other solution is offered by the company BioData GmbH,
>the manufacturer of BioNet (I think the most reliable 
>network system in ST/TT environment).
>To this X-Window-Server I cannot give any statement, because
>I never got the chance to test it.
>From hardware side I can recommend BioNet, because it is one
>of the few products, which allows network connectivity to
>other ST/TT, PC, Mac and Unix (incl. FTP, Telnet, etc.).
>BioNet is an external network interface with Ethernet (thick/thin)
>and DMA (in/out) used by many german professionals companies.
>
>likos@clinet.fi

Hello Johannis,

i attended the CeBIT 91 as manufacturer of OverScan and we were at the same
booth as Biodata. Since i work a lot with X-windows in the university, i
and the one from biodata installed the x-driver. First we installed it on
a normal MEGA ST. The x-driver was an DA that run in the background. If
you select the DA, you see a second screen with the X-interface. Since the
ST could not initially start/run any clients, you had to start an xterm 
client via a normal terminal-program on the ST-screen. After a switch to
the X-screen the xterm appeared and one could start other clients like
the motif window maniger on the host maschine. To get back to the ST-screen
one had to type a shift/alt/control key combination. The X-Load and other
things continued to work on the X-screen, update was done in the AES-
multitasking, i think.
The performance of the MEGA was not very good, little slower than a sun 3/50.
On the next days we installed X-windows on the Atari TT and the performance
was better. The programmer was also at the CeBIT 91 and he said that this
was a non optimised version and the real version will be a lot faster. 
The TT-Bigscreen is already supported, but our overscan-modification was
not yet supported. I talked to the programmer and so i think the overscan
modification will be supported in future...

Greetings, Karsten