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From: alan@arc.UUCP (Alan Mimms)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X on Apollo
Message-ID: <8712221718.AA03719@arc.com>
Date: 22 Dec 87 17:18:58 GMT
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	How many people are trying to use the Apollo version ?
	The net seems to have lots of messages about Suns but very few about Apollos.
	We are hoping to be exhibiting our software (works fine on Sun so far)
	at European exhibitions in '88 on both Suns and Apollos and it would be nice
	for us (and Sun and Apollo) if we could show everything working.

We're running our X.V11R1 on Apollos and Suns.  Since Suns are scarcer here,
we use the Apollos as Xwindows terminals most of the time, starting a window
manager on the Suns with "rsh".  Apollos (with a few minor tweaks to the
X.V11R1 release of the server -- if you're interested, drop me a line) make
pretty nice terminals.

We're attempting to do portable development of a toolkit (which is actually a
port of our old VAX/VMS/UIS toolkit) to run on VMS, Apollos, and Suns.  Right
now, the development team is using Apollos exclusively because of a (minor)
difficulty with Sun's C compiler accepting things like

	x = 'ABCD';
	
The people at Sun argue that 'ABCD' is an erroneous constant value, whereas
EVERY other compiler I've tried (including the original VAX/4.2BSD compiler)
accepts it just fine.

	Alan Mimms							texsun!arc!alan
	ADVANSOFT Research Corp.			Telephone (408) 727-3357