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Subject: Re: X Windows
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Topic: amiga, Entry # 10754
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Subject: X Windows
Summary: Is there a simple terminal program which supports it?
Keywords: X-Windows, terminal programs, modem
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Date: 21 Mar 88 00:57:35 GMT
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In article <23363@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> rbrown@ernie.Berkeley.EDU
(Robert Brown) writes:

>This may be a naive question, but is there a terminal program for the
>Amiga which supports X Windows?  I just bought my Amiga A2000 today and
>have only seen the reviews in Amiga World.
>
>The main reason I would like to have such a beast is that I hack on Sun
>Workstations at work and it would be *real nice* to work on the graphic
>programs from the comfort of my bed.  (Talk about tele-commuting!)

I'm not sure you'd really want to run X Windows over a modem (slooow), but...

Dale Luck (the creator of the graphics.library for you newcomers) is currently
working on an X Windows port.  It is his own project, not related at all to
Commodore.  I saw a back-room demo of it at NCGA last week.  It was running
on Hedley's 1008X800 monitor.  It currently consists of only the X Windows
server, and only in monochrome for Hedley's monitor, but he's working on
the X library and support for other resolutions.  He said he first wants to
support every network imaginable, and then support the frame buffers that are
(hopefully) coming out soon.  Actually, he said it would be easier to write
an X driver for a frame buffer than it would to make the Amiga graphics.library
work on a frame buffer (but both are in the works...)

He didn't have a release date, but it's still several months off.

Oh, BTW, it was X version 11, and, of course, multitasks well.

I hope I don't get in trouble for posting this, but he didn't say to keep it
quiet.........   :-)

Bob Deen  @  NASA-JPL Multimission Image Processing Lab
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