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From: ejkst@cisunx.UUCP (Eric J. Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Memory and the A2024 Hedley monitor.
Message-ID: <12011@cisunx.UUCP>
Date: 25 Aug 88 04:09:03 GMT
References: <8808060100.AA11069@jade.berkeley.edu> <3550@cadnetix.COM> <2746@amiga.UUCP> <11731@cisunx.UUCP> <3608@cadnetix.COM>
Reply-To: ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Eric J. Kennedy)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Sys
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In article <3608@cadnetix.COM> childs@cadnetix.COM (David Childs) writes:
>In article <11731@cisunx.UUCP> ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Eric J. Kennedy) writes:
>>How do these work?  Are X and NeWS for the unreleased UN*X system, or do
>>they run under/over/beside AmigaDos?  Just what is it that they do?

>I'm not 100% sure about NeWS, but I believe both run under AmigaDOS.  Or
>along side if you wish.  Dale Luck said that X had 16 built-in bitmap

>He said because of the blitter, Amiga X would run faster than X on a Sun 3/50,
>and because of the lack of UNIX overhead, Amiga X could run as much as 4 times
>faster on a 68000 Amiga than a Sun 3/50.  (User interface routines and screen
>stuff, update window, etc.)

Pardon me if I seem to be belaboring the point, but...ah...just what do
you _do_ with it?  I've never seen X or NeWS on another machine, just
read brief descriptions.  Is this something that will aid in porting
code from other machines to run on the amiga, without having to convert
from X to Intuition, for instance?  Or do X and NeWS do something
useful in themselves?  I get the idea that it's similar in that respect
to Windows for the PC.  Windows doesn't _do_ much of anything by itself,
but other (specially written) applications run within it, using its
resources.  






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