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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.graphics
Subject: Re: X on IBM PC
Message-ID: <1583@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 18 Mar 88 12:48:26 GMT
References: <347@ga.ecn.purdue.edu>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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In article ... edward@ga.ecn.purdue.edu (Edward L Haletky) writes:
> 1) Several software house have ported X to various PC's.

> 2) X is a unixed based program. [ It runs on the PC under UNIX ]

> 3) To port such a beast to a PC would require C compiler that can handle
>    all the Unix system calls. I do not know one that can. (possibly MSC.)

That's one way of saying it. You also need an operating system to support
all the UNIX calls (like fork()) or else you need to do more or less a
complete rewrite to jam it into a device driver.
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