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From: dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: amiga 2500UX
Message-ID: <600@boing.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jan 89 16:17:51 GMT
References: <974@cc-krs.UUCP> <11280@swan.ulowell.edu> <37@snll-arpagw.UUCP> <1394@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca>
Reply-To: dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck)
Organization: Boing, Milpitas, Ca.
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In article <1394@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca> chk@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca (C. Harald Koch) writes:
>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....

That is not my understanding. Correct me if I'm wrong cbm but, the last I
heard the AMIX software only supports one style display. That's 640x200x2
bitplanes. There is no such thing as multiple screens, split screens or
any of the other extra graphics features of the original amigados. It is
basically a plain Jane Unix port. I don't recall it even being able to support
the a2024 monitor. But maybe they did get that fixed and I forgot.

>At the moment, Amiga Unix is SysVr3. This does not have a BSD socket library,
>which X-windows requires.

X does not require a BSD socket library. It just requires more effort if one
is not there. You end up rewritting the network code to use SysV Streams
instead of BSD sockets.

>It will take some time to port X-windows to the Amiga. but the hooks are
>all there.

I assume you mean X for the 2500UX machine. Yes, because X11 was written
really for BSD machines, it will take some time do a port to the SysV
world. But it has been done and tapping that experience is what cbm should
do.


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Dale Luck     GfxBase/Boing, Inc.
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