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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: the MGR window manger is finally available
Message-ID: <1942@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 21 Jan 89 18:24:37 GMT
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Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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In article <13539@bellcore.bellcore.com> daniel@wind.UUCP (Daniel W Nachbar) writes:
>Starting this week, the source code for the MGR window manager
>is being distributed on comp.sources.unix. 
>The port to System V took
>about 2 days.  The port to the sun 386i took 2 hours.  A summer student
>ported it to the Mac (running MacOS not A/UX) in less than two weeks.
>I suspect that a port to Minix might be similarly painless.

Given the size of X, I doubt that it will ever run adequately on any
machine for which MINIX is appropriate.  Are there any window fans who
have a few days to take a look at MGR and see if it can be ported to MINIX?

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)