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Subject: Available (soon) HPUX + X Windows Magic Driver
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Date: Thu, 21-May-87 16:46:47 EDT
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In article <128@uoregon.UUCP> sanjay@fog.UUCP (Sanjay Rajopadhye) writes:

>  We are getting a couple of hp bobcats later this summer, and I'm interested
>in getting magic and the berkeley tools running on them.  Does anyone have
>pointers on what is involved in writing the graphics drivers (actually
>modifying the existing (most likely color Sun) drivers).  Better yet, has
>anyone already done this and would be willing to share the result.

I did this at UCLA.  The port requires the X windows system.  This is
a much upgraded version of an HPUX magic CMU has.  We are using it
pretty heavily now.  It is compatible with 4, 6 and 8 bitplane color
monitors.  It took a non-stop, little sleep week to do it, so I don't
recommend repeating the effort.

This version of X magic is very solid (doesn't crash, completely
functional).  The CMU version crashes quite often, and doesn't work
with 4 bitplane monitors.

I am incredibly overworked at the moment and don't really want to
assemble a distribution for about a month or two.  Those people who
want the new X graphics driver, and the mods for HPUX, can send me a
message.  I'll get back to you when time has been carved out.

We have also ported many of the tools (spice2g6, esim, rsim, crystal,
sim2spice, ...) to HPUX.

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