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From: aleks@well.UUCP (Brian J. Witt)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: Re: generic parameters
Summary: real programs on the Amiga, X-Windows
Keywords: amiga, X-Windows
Message-ID: <10363@well.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 89 18:00:17 GMT
References: <1826@vlot.cs.vu.nl> <4913@cognos.UUCP> <10122@well.UUCP> <1098@hub.ucsb.edu>
Reply-To: aleks@well.UUCP (Brian Witt)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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In article <1098@hub.ucsb.edu> bertrand@hub.ucsb.edu (Bertrand Meyer) writes:
>In article <10122@well.UUCP>, jax@well.UUCP (Jack J. Woehr) writes:
>> 
>> 	Does eiffel exist on the Amiga yet? 
>
>No, although there has been some talk of porting it (nothing done so
>far). Are people developing ``real'' software on the Amiga?
>(No offense meant; just asking.)
>
>Bertrand Meyer
>bertrand@eiffel.com

     There is some wild desktop presentation going on...  Dale Luck
has ported X11 over to the Amiga; black and white only right now.
It runs using an Ethernet card attached to the Amiga 500, 1000, or
2000.  I saw a demo with an Amiga 500 and 2000 netted to a Sun 2.
Everyone was running programs one place with display somewhere else.
The Xwindows `kernel' requires about 300K; fonts are extra.  Dale
wrote the graphics and layering libraries on the Amiga, and is now
a contract worker for Amiga-Commodore (as Dave Lucas would say).
His siganture is:

>  -- 
>  Dale Luck     GfxBase/Boing, Inc.
>  {uunet!cbmvax|pyramid}!amiga!boing!dale
>

There is also a Unix Sys V.3 available for the Amiga.  It is a
serious start.  I'd buy a copy of Eiffel.

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--- brian witt