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From: ccastks@pyr.gatech.EDU (Ken Seefried iii)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: X Windows on a 3B1
Message-ID: <4933@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: 3 Feb 88 15:37:43 GMT
References: <1686@codas.att.com> <3686@megaron.arizona.edu>
Reply-To: ccastks@pyr.UUCP (Ken Seefried iii)
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
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In article <3686@megaron.arizona.edu> lm@megaron.arizona.edu.UUCP (Larry McVoy) writes:
>In article <1686@codas.att.com> mikel@codas.att.com (Mikel Manitius) writes:
>>Has anyone tried to port, or know of anyone that has, X Windows onto a
>>3B1? I've got my hands on X.V11R1, and am thinking about looking into
>>doing the port myself. Ideas?
>
>Uh huh.  Right.  It's only umpteen million lines of code that depends heavily
>upon BSD system calls.  Good luck.
>-- 
>Larry McVoy	lm@arizona.edu or ...!{uwvax,sun}!arizona.edu!lm
>		Use the force - read the source.

Uh, Larry, try not to be so condesending....

X does depend in many ways on BSD calls, but there are several ports to 
System V.  Indeed, there is even a version that runs under MS-DOS (that
I know nothing about, other than it does exsist).  If it can live in the
hell of MS-DOS, i imagine it can live just about anywhere...;'}

While this port (System V) required a lot of work, i would wish Mikel a 
sincere good luck.  It CAN be done...perhaps you can't, Larry, but there
are some awfully sharp people who have...
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