Path: utzoo!dciem!dretor!chk
From: chk@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca (C. Harald Koch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: amiga 2500UX
Message-ID: <1394@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca>
Date: 23 Jan 89 15:50:40 GMT
Article-I.D.: dretor.1394
References: <974@cc-krs.UUCP> <11280@swan.ulowell.edu> <37@snll-arpagw.UUCP>
Reply-To: chk@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca (C. Harald Koch)
Organization: NTT Systems, Inc., Toronto, Canada
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In article <37@snll-arpagw.UUCP> paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci) writes:
>Why Commodore does not use X as the windowing system I cannot understand.

My understanding is that Amiga Unix supports the Amiga screens concept. Thus
you can have a screen running the Amiga window system, and a screen running
X-windows, and a screen running NeWS, and a screen running CMU windows, and
and and....

At the moment, Amiga Unix is SysVr3. This does not have a BSD socket library,
which X-windows requires. It will take some time to port X-windows to the
Amiga. but the hooks are all there.

Disclaimer: This information is based on rumors and conjectures heard at the
World of Commodore in Toronto, and of course may be complety disjoint with
reality.

-- 
C. Harald Koch		NTT Systems, Inc., Toronto, Ontario
chk@zorac.dciem.dnd.ca, chk@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu, chk@chkent.UUCP
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