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From: brant@manta.UUCP (Brant Cheikes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: 3B1 misc. questions
Message-ID: <121@manta.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 23-Aug-87 12:18:50 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 23 12:18:50 1987
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In article <14@icus.UUCP> lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano) writes:
>|> 
>|> Does anybody know if there's a port of X-Windows for the 3B1?
>|> -- 
>As far as I know this exists with the Utilities stuff for 3.51, I'm might
>just wait for 4.0 since this is pretty fast for a new release since 3.5.
>It gets kind of expensive to upgrade.

You are confusing X-windows with "XT Layers", which comes with the
3.51 development kit.  They are not the same.  X-windows is available
from the MIT Athena Project; it's an impressive new window system for
bitmapped graphics workstations.  It runs on a number of machines and
is written in C, but I think the relatively small size of the 3B1
display (compared to the size of displays on workstations that X was
designed for) would not make use of X-windows useful, if it could be
ported at all.

By the way, aren't you just assuming (optimistically) that there will
ever be a release 4.0 of the Unix PC F/S and utilities?

								Brant
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Brant Cheikes
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