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From: rimbold@dino.ulowell.edu (Rob Rimbold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Apollo sourced X ...
Message-ID: <1950@dino.ulowell.edu>
Date: 18 Mar 88 00:46:25 GMT
References: <1881@obiwan.mips.COM>
Reply-To: rimbold@dino.ulowell.edu (Rob Rimbold)
Organization: University of Lowell Productivity Center, Lowell MA.
Lines: 55
Keywords: X11R?, Color server, status ... huh ... what???

In article <1881@obiwan.mips.COM> roger@mips.COM (Roger March) writes:
>
>	1)	Does Apollo currently offer X as a supported product? About a
>		year ago I got a badly mangled X10 from our local sales office
>		and it was definitely unsupported at that time.

	Nope. As far as I know (but hey - what do I know? :-) it's not a
	supported product. Not until OS 10, in which it will be an integral
	part of the windowing environment (along with the current interface).
	The cover letter on the Adus tape says ".. it is not yet supported
	by Apollo. As you probably know, Apollo will support X at a future
	date."
	

>	2)	If X is available, which version - 10R4, 11R1, 11Rx? Also what
>		revision of the AEGIS ... er, Domain IX is required for it.

	You can get X V11 R1 on an Adus tape. It's monochrome. In the
	cover note for the tape, dated November 1987, it states that you
	need: SR9.6 or SR9.7, Domain/IX, TCP/IP preferably v3.1, a mouse.

>	3)	If X isn't currently available, when will it be and again what
>		OS revision is needed?

	See above notes.

>	4)	Again if no X today, can I get a cleaned (or patched) version
>		of the MIT distribution from Apollo? In the past, some alien
>		and obscene behavior of Apollo's "cpp" has made building X a
>		nightmare from the MIT tape.

	The version that you get on the Adus tape is essentially the MIT
	supplied stuff, but cleaned up a little. Installing it is a breeze.
	They did, however, forget to mention three filesystem links that
	need to be created if you intend to write X clients.

>	5)	The Apollo server on the MIT tape appears to be mono-chrome
>		only. Is there a color server available somewhere? I assume
>		that the supported X will have a color server, or do I assume
>		wrong?

	You're correct on both counts. The color version is a beta sort of
	thing, as is the version in which DM and X windows coexist.

>	Thanks to all future respondents.

	No problem. What's the net for? :-)




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