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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Mit X conference and who has the PC/RT server ?
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Date: 27 Jan 88 22:46:57 GMT
References: <2007@elrond.CalComp.COM>
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Keywords: X on PC

In article <2007@elrond.CalComp.COM> jam@elrond.UUCP (Julie A. Melbin) writes:
>Help! Does anyone who attended the MIT X consortium know who was running the
>X server on the PC/RT with a Megapel Display in Kresge? We would like to beg,
>borrow or steal (:)) a copy of this server (source or binary). Also, what
>operating system was this ported under? Any help, phone numbers, et al
>is GREATLY APPRECIATED!

The X-11 Megapel server was developed jointly by IBM and the USC Advanced
Computing Support Center.  The server shown in Kresge was a multi-display
server running concurrently with 3 display devices: the Megapel, an apa-16
(B&W) and an EGA.  The IBM MIT group that showed it in Kresge was one of the
original beta testers of the Megapel server.  An earlier version of the
server was shown at the EDUCOM conference in LA, late last year.

The server runs on an IBM RT PC with IBM/4.3 (Not to be confused with
the AIX X-11 version announced for September 1988).  As such it is still an
unreleased and unannounced product.  (Though, you won't have to wait long :-)
At the MIT Conference, there were rumors that the server would go on the next
release of X from MIT, but it was unclear whether it would be only in binary
form or not.  MIT probably knows more about it than we do.

I like the display a lot, especially the 16 in., though I cannot be considered
an impartial party.  

-- Marco Papa
   USC Advanced Computing Support Center